Hello,
although you don't give information about the system (OS etc),
the best candidate, for the heavy load is the mailscanner - spamassasin
combo. I suspect that you are noticing this when the message is being
processed by these two ...
I suspect you have the classic two queue configura
The same problem appeared last day on our mailhost (cnl.di.uoa.gr) running
mailman 2.0.6 on RedHat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.3/sendmail 8.11.6) but it seems bind
to a speciffic email message with many attachments (word documents) when
that message was removed from the qrunner queue all returnd to normal.
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