OT: Dynamically updating /etc/mail/access

[Daniel Zajd]

Is it possible to get a copy of your script to have as a base?

> I implemented this and a few other things in a script and now we are
> blocking 80%  of incoming spam without having to bother MailScanner or
> SpamAssassin with processing it.
>
> Spam Caught / Total Incoming E-mail:
> 444 / 3103
> High Scoring Spam:177
> Spam blocked by sendmail:1748
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ben C. O. Grimm [mailto:mailscanner-sub at WIREHUB.NET]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:03 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: OT: Dynamically updating /etc/mail/access
>>
>>
>> On 7 Jan 2003 00:50:03 +0100, Stewart Lawler
>> <slawler at SYDNEY.NII.COM.AU>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> this looks like a great solution - but what is the
>> performance impact?
>>> The relay machine i'm running mailscanner on at the moment
>> is rather old
>>> and might not cope with being given much more to do. :-)
>>
>> The only performance impact will be hashing the database when
>> using the
>> full list. Shouldn't be too much work though. You don't have
>> to worry about
>> the size of the resulting db; hash lookups are blazingly fast. Our
>> access.db is >20 MB in size (we put a lot of extra
>> information in it), and
>> it gets called at least 2 times per second. I sleep well.
>>
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