Memory, MD, SA, PHP
Tags: E-Mail , KE

I installed 1 GB RAM and updated versions of MIMEDefang, SpamAssassin, and PHP on KE today.

• RAM Addition: I installed 1 GB of RAM, increasing the total to 2 GB and using up all four DIMM slots. 512 MB of the new RAM is being used as a memory filesystem mounted on /var/spool/MIMEDefang. This is speeding up mail submissions considerably, since all MIMEDefang work and Vexira antivirus scanning is now essentially done in RAM. The 512 MB size of the filesystem is fixed due to limitiations in FreeBSD, however this should be plenty for these purposes (by comparison, the old spool directory had approximately 600 MB free and much of the space used there is for the /var/log directory).

• I upgraded MIMEDefang to version 2.33. I apparently hadn’t installed the latest version of my mimedefang-filter script, so I copied that from my workstation (to get native Vexira support).

• SpamAssassin is now at version 2.54, which should be much more accurate than the year-old previous version. This also includes the Bayes extensions, which are currently turned off.

• I upgraded to PHP 4.3.1 (the latest version in the FreeBSD ports tree). This required the addition of the pth package. I also changed the default configuration to have register_globals be ON (to keep SquirrelMail happy).

Posted by Rowan Littell at May 17, 2003 05:36 PM