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It should be done late this afternoon or this evening (Eastern time). I just have to get to a computer where I can do it (we're an all-volunteer staff, I'm at work at the moment on mobile...).

My changes appeared to have worked. In the last 12 hours your account has only used 1.4 GB of memory and 86.1 units of cpu. I'm going to mark this solved. You've only received 8 emails in the last hour so that's not too bad. If you want to re-enable spam assassin and remove the filter rule go ahead.

The spam attack has started again. In the last 24 hours your account has used 651 GB of memory, and 59,536.20 units of cpu. That is 794% more memory than #2, and 3356% more cpu than #2. I noticed what was going on though before your account got suspended. The email address that is being targeted is bbass at tommy.heliohost.org so I logged in to that account and created a new filter rule. Any email address with an @ symbol in it (so all email addresses) simply discards the email instead of scanning it to see if it's spam. Since the memory and cpu usage is coming from the spamd process this should hopefully skip the scanning of all these spam emails and save the server from the high memory usage and high cpu usage that scanning tens of thousands of emails requires. If this doesn't help enough we may be forced to suspend your account until this blows over again. The email filter didn't skip spamd. I'm going to have to disable spam assassin on your whole account.