[Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking

[Stephen Ford]

First off, thanks for all the fast and helpful
replies. 

I've copied the output from a df -h and my vfstab,
maybe I've got something wrong.  I'm now getting a
system load over 34, refusing connections in my
syslog. From doing a fast search, I see I need to
recompile my sendmail.cf..... 

We have a box from esafe that is our primary mail
relay sitting in front of my box.  This handles the
virus's *but* it prevents me from doing grey listing
or using doing things at the MTA level.  I did look at
the "configuration" of the box and the admin has a max
connection of 200 per host and a mail size limit of
80megs!!!!  I'm thinking if I can get the max
connection down to say 10, that should take care of
most of the ratware right? 

Also, what the *&^%$% is facebook.com!?!

# df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity 
Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0       20G   2.5G    17G    13%    /
/proc                    0K     0K     0K     0%   
/proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%   
/etc/mnttab
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%   
/dev/fd
swap                   8.8G    32K   8.8G     1%   
/var/run
swap                   1.0G   3.5M  1020M     1%   
/tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3      9.8G   1.4G   8.3G    15%   
/usr/local
swap                   512M   5.4M   507M     2%   
/var/spool/MIMEDefang
# cat /etc/vfstab
#device         device          mount           FS    
 fsck    mount   mount
#to mount       to fsck         point           type  
 pass    at boot options
#
fd      -       /dev/fd fd      -       no      -
/proc   -       /proc   proc    -       no      -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1       -       -       swap    -     
 no      -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0       /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0      /     
 ufs     1       no      -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3       /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3     
/usr/local      ufs     2       yes     -
swap    -       /var/spool/MIMEDefang   tmpfs   -     
 yes     size=512m
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes size=1024m


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