Further to my post about DSPAM Suexec problems I also ran into a further problem recently with our DSPAM server……

We get A LOT of mail through this system and when I say a lot I mean s***loads, the last count was 51 million emails processed in 9 months!!!!  Anyway, DSPAM uses a set of perl cgi scripts to generate the  web interface which while it works, certainly isn’t cut out for performance.  These cgi scripts use the system.log to build its history and quarantine views and if you still want to be able to use the web interface then you will have to start pruning the system.log file on a regular basis.
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