Problem with spamd and mass incomming mail.

[snaaps]

Hello,

One of our accounts recieves mass email bouncers thats delevered to no existing mail accounts.
(mail adres has been used by spammers as a fake sender)
The catch all has the status "ignore" but its seems that spam assassin scan al those incomming mails wich results in a high server load.

I have now disabled spam assassin so the server has no high serverload.
But I want to know:

How can i edit spamd in the exim config so spamd will not scan the mail that has send to no existings mail adresses?

 

[localhost]

You will need to check for exim.conf and find where SpamAssassin rule is defined. Then you will need to find the rule where Exim checks for existing accounts.

Then you just need to put them in a right condition of execution.
I am not using Exim provided by DirectAdmin.

 

[nobaloney]

SpamAssassin will scan all incoming emails. You need to block those emails so they don't get accepted by the server. Does the domain in question use catchall email? If so, then set up the forwarders it needs and delete the catchall.

Jeff