Alternatives to amavis for RAM-bound server

Posted by rsuarez on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by rsuarez
Published on 2011-06-21T08:54:38Z Indexed on 2012/10/21 11:05 UTC
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I'm running a small VPS server that works as web and mail server. It has only 256MB of RAM, and it's sucking 100MB of swap constantly. I've found that one of the culprits is amavis, taking about 30MB of resident memory, and would like to ditch it and use some alternative.

I don't have much mail daily, so it being a bit slower wouldn't be a problem. I'd like to avoid Spamassassin altogether, if possible, because it's quite big even if used in offline mode. I'm already using RBLs and a few small blacklists, and used greylisting for a while but abandoned it because it gave me a few problems (don't remember which; I think it was related to not configuring properly white lists for several big ISPs).

So, is there some alternative to amavis that I could use without much RAM (and if possible, CPU) usage?

Thanks in advance.

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