spam

We've been hit by a ton of spam lately. We used to only get a couple hundred a day but now where probably getting a thousand a day. It seems that the increase load is breaking either mailman or qmail in the sense that delivery stops. We had some problems over the weekend where there were a bunch of dead qmail processes and even though port 25 seemed to be open, mailman was throwing errors about not being able to connect to the localhost. I stopped qmail and cleaned up the processes and then restarted. Things started to move after that. I'll have to check the logs to see if it is the spam that is causing the problem or if it is something else.