From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 10:53:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF39616A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:53:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from materva.diewebmaster.at (materva.diewebmaster.at [80.66.42.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AD443D49 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:53:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christian.damm@diewebmaster.at) Received: from localhost (localhost.diewebmaster.at [127.0.0.1]) by materva.diewebmaster.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E795218073; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:53:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from materva.diewebmaster.at ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (materva.diewebmaster.at [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89781-06; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:53:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (da.diewebmaster.at [192.168.1.14]) by materva.diewebmaster.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06180218052; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:53:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <423AB25E.3000909@diewebmaster.at> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:50:06 +0100 From: Christian Damm User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at diewebmaster.at cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dspam data sizes X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:53:36 -0000 this was discussed in detail (several times) on the dspam mailing list - search the archives: 'http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/search.shtml'. you can extremely cut down your db size using different methods...which training method you are currently using? - once dspam is "mature" enough (training wise) it is (for example) a good idea to switch to TOE mode (train on error) if your user base is large - your db shrinks and the performance gain is big. Doug Hardie schrieb: > After seeing the recommendations here I am testing dspam. I currently > have 2 users testing it. They are at both extreme ends of mail > demands. My account gets about 1000 emails a day of which about 25-30% > are spam. The other account gets about 100 emails a day of which about > 90% are spam. So far, dspam is quarantining about 1/3rd of the spam I > receive. Is basically the same as Apple's mail filtering. My mail is > being sent to both. However, the storage of the data used by dspam is a > bit overwhealming. The storage is at 250 MB for me and 20 MB for the > other account. I have cut way down the purge retention intervals which > appears to help somewhat but not enough. I have thousands of users and > at 250 MB per user (it would probably be a bit below that) its just not > practical. How do other users of dspam deal with this issue? Is there > some setting I have wrong (or at least not set most efficently)? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > !DSPAM:423a90a8860071995817248! > -- mfg. christian damm technische leitung phone: dw 42 email: christian.damm@diewebmaster.at icq at work: 124464652 die webmaster - flötzerweg 156 - 4030 linz - austria phone: +43-732-381242, fax: +43-732-381242-22, isdn (leonardo): +43-732-381242-33 homepage: www.diewebmaster.at, public email: office@diewebmaster.at