[Cialug] spam filtering

[Jon Clemons]

Of course using the below would help on queue problems. Typically a large 
bounce queue doesn't result in heavy load itself.

reject_non_fqdn_sender,reject_unknown_sender_domain


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan C. Smith" <smith@ipmvs.com>
To: <cialug@cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: [Cialug] spam filtering


>
> Does amavisd-new run as a daemon?
> Why are they accepting mail to bounce to a non-existent host?
> Have you looked into tarpit for this client?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Weis [mailto:djweis@sjdjweis.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:29 AM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] spam filtering
>
>
>
>
> I've got a client that's getting about 25k emails per day, 95%+ is spam.
> We are running on redhat 9 with amavisd-new amavisd-new-20030314-p2 and
> postfix 1.1.11 using the content filtering and sophos as the AV plugin. We
> are having severe load problems and mail speed is a couple minutes for
> incoming mail. Part of the problem is that we will get 200-500+ messages
> stuck in the queue waiting to bounce to non-existant hosts. Would an
> upgrade to a newer version of amavisd-new help?
>
> dave
>
>
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