Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:30:44 -0700 (PDT) From: stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com> To: paulh@logicsquad.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find -exec surprisingly slow Message-ID: <20040815033044.24259.qmail@web61308.mail.yahoo.com>
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it was said: >The original problem was that _bouncing_ these messages is >fruitless---they almost invariably have a forged From address. I'm >getting on average about 10,000 of them per day, so there were >constantly several thousand messages in my queue, as well as several >thousand bounced bounces and failures in my postmaster mailbox every >day. Hello, Ahh! That is much clearer! You may want to look into ucspi-tcp in sysutils/ports. Its tcpserver, tcprules, and rblsmtpd "sub-programs" do a fairly good job of rejecting connections from undesirable smtp servers - from the individual address all the way to netblock level. See http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html for details. Other possible options a something like spamassassin, route them to /dev/null, etc. Another 2%, Stheg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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