spamassassin overloaded, qmail passing mail

[epcs]

I understand from previous threads that spamd children cannot be increased past 5. However, qmail on my server is processing so much mail that spamd cannot handle the load. When this happens, qmail fails to check mail through spamc and simply passes it on to the user account. I really need a spam filtering solution that doesn't allow spam into my user's mail folders when the server experiences high load.

What would be ideal is if I could force qmail to re-queue mail that fails to be checked by spamassassin. Does anyone know how I might accomplish this?

 

[ib1984]

it is possible to increase number of spamassassin children past 5 but it can be done only through database. Look at this KB article