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Thought you might like this article located here: http://www.right-thoughts.us/index.php/weblog/comments/commenting_slower/ Commenting slower?  Plus other issues… Something went haywire with Bad Behavior, the plugin that has been stopping bad people from flooding me with spam trackbacks and comments.  It seems to be unable to read from its database table, and even after deleting, recreating and reinstalling it is just broken.  I have since installed Askimet, the Wordpress-created system that is supposed to do the same thing.  It seems, at least to me, to have slowed things down a touch - it seems to take longer to submit a comment.  Not much longer, maybe an extra 5-8 seconds.  Anyone else noticing that? While I’m here - There also seems to be a problem with email off this server.  We’re running Qmail, and it seems to be sending a bare LF as described here.  I think.  However, my version of sendmail already has the fix in there.  It still fails.  When I try using an outside SMTP server, every one I have tried has failed me for this bare LF thing. When I switch to using PHPMail, it says everything is fine but doesn’t actually go anywhere.  No one gets the mail.  This means that if you ask the system to send you a password, it may not get to you.  If fact it probably won’t.  I don’t know why, and I also don’t know how long it will take to fix.  In the mean time, just email me directly if you have account issues. Lastly, I have removed the email confirmation requirement when signing up.  I enabled captcha for new signups, hopefully that plus Askimet will eliminate robots from making accounts.  I have also put a trouble ticket in to Softlayer to see if anyone can solve this freaking problem. *UPDATE* Interesting progress - 8 million emails are stuck in the queue.  Eight.  Million.  It’s actually closer to 7.900,00, but I’m rounding up that last 100,000 or so.  That would be why the mail system is borked.  They’re working on cleaning it up and installing a script to make sure it doesn’t happen again. As for the Bad Behavior thing, one of the trackback spammers left a bad character that corrupted the record, and when I repaired it from the recent backup it was still catching bad guys, and everyone else too!  I fixed it and I might go back to it, but Askimet seems to be doing pretty good and it churns the database a lot less, so we’ll see.