From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 03:01:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA5616A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:01:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web61305.mail.yahoo.com (web61305.mail.yahoo.com [216.155.196.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CA5743D31 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:01:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040815030147.95552.qmail@web61305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.34.130.149] by web61305.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:01:47 PDT Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:01:47 -0700 (PDT) From: stheg olloydson To: paulh@logicsquad.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] Re: find -exec surprisingly slow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:01:48 -0000 it was said: >I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams >sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by >.qmail-default. What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily >instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant >drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month >and a half of collection. Hello, What I would do is avoid the problem in the first place by not having a .qmail-default. I don't know how important being sure you have no false positive spam rejections to incorrect/misspelled addresses is to you, but is it worth accepting hundreds of thousands of spams and then looking through them to find the very few that may be legitimate? I think you would be better off creating variations in the users' .qmail file, such as paul.hoadley@, phoadley@, paul.h@. That could been done via a script that gets called when you create a user, so the only extra work would be to write script the first time and plugging it in. (Of course, you would have to run it against your existing users, too.) As I said, I don't know what your requirements are, just my 2% of the applicable currency's base unit. HTH, Stheg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail