Spam.blacklist.rules critical mass
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Dec 5 16:44:13 GMT 2003
At 15:27 05/12/2003, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a maximum limit to the number of entries in a
>rules file?
No theoretical fixed limit, no.
> I've been regularly adding entries to my spam.blacklist.rules file
> which has now reached about 30K in size. I haven't noticed much impact
> on system performance or memory use but was wondering if someone else has
> seen a direct correlation between a growing rules file and decreased
> system performance? At what level did your system start to choke? Whats
> the best practice for blacklisting?
If you want fast per-domain spam blacklist/whitelisting, use the per-domain
stuff in CustomConfig.pm.
If you want a straightforward spam blacklist that works very fast, look in
the latest CustomConfig.pm and search for "FastSpamList". That code isn't
quite what you want, but will be a very good starting point to implement it.
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