Thursday, 19 June 2008

spam from root !!

Just a little warning about spam assassin.... 

If an internal email (from root, admin, cron, Apache etc) is generated it would normally be processed by spam assassin. Spam assassin in its default form will process any size of email. However it just brought one of our mail servers down trying to process a 220MB email generated by root during a failed backup operation. I will now limit spam assassin to smaller emails!