incoming spam & High server load

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dpr3266

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Hello, I'm having problems with incoming spam on my dedicated server the load average of the server is around 80 or 100.2 I know it's incoming spam because when I check the exim process I see a lot of ips from russia, germany, taiwan then I block that ips with the /etc/apf/apf -d ip command and then the load of the server drops down to 7 or less, so the cuestion is how can I detect and block the spammers ips automatically on the server? I have spam assassin running and blocks the spam emails right, the real problem is the high load generated for spamd application and all the incoming connections of the spammers ips on the server.

Server specifications:
Cent OS 4
Control panel: directadmin
Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2214 HE
1GB RAM
Exim 4.68
Apache 1.3.39
MySQL 5.0.37
vm-Pop3d 1.1.7f-DA-2

Thanks for you help.
 
i have got same problem , and have ask support, still did not find a good way , perday 2-4am , mail coming more then 10000...
 
It's important to update your exim.conf and exim.pl. First block spam using the RBL. Then check the serverrules and then use spamassassin. Dont do it in another order, it cousses unnessisary load.
 
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