-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-12-21 at 14:08 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
However, I understand that this is precisely what SuSE server does. You know, _I_ would be rejected otherwise ;-)
The Suse server is not exactly high-volume. It may receive some ten thousand mails per day, not much more. Believe me, if the list server had to process all mails that it is SENDING for spam and viruses it would need some SERIOUS hardware. (^-^)
Probably. What about gmail? I can send to them ;-)
I am very glad that the suse server accepts mails from dynamic ips. Though the listserver has the protection of only allowing the list subscribers as sender addresses. That is probably why it is possible at all.
That's true, but I understand the entry server was the same for the whole company - SuSE, that is, not Novell. Maybe the use other blocks, but AFAIK, not dymamic IPs. Which is very fortunate for me, of course.
The postfix-users mailing list gets a lot of cries for help because the mail queue has piled up into dimensions that threaten to bury the server. Usually it is because either to many mails are waiting to be processed or because of a misconfiguration the machine is not used efficiently. Unfortunately nothing can be done if the machine is simply buried in a spam run.
:-(
So my policy is to use pretty reasonable checks that seldom reject wanted mails, configure a whitelist for those few (usually a handful within some month) and let spamassassin analyse the rest.
I suppose I would do mostly the same in your place.
Since robust and capable server hardware has become easily affordable it is possible for low-level volume sites (less than 50000 mails per day) to use pre-queue content filtering and reject the mails directly. The configuration is a bit more difficult because all filtering has to be done fast and only as many concurrent connections are possible as concurrent content_filter processes are supported by the hardware.
pre-queue? Wow. :-O What kind of software do they use for that? Can postfix do that? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFiyrBtTMYHG2NR9URAvcVAJ4+F+LOb19GRQ6mSRi3G+lMmNUQiQCeJ9rh KSo0dvWgVr+W1jCLEB6JgjM= =GeM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org