Fwd: RE: Dealing with MailScanner overloads

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> Why not send the relay-IP directly to a OpenRelayDatabase? ex. ordb.org?
>
> In almost every MTA, you can set it to test the senders IP in such a
> database directly.
> This way the message will get rejected at MTA-stage.
>
> I know SA is looking up in such databases too, but IMHO I think it's less
> consuming testing the relay at MTA-stage :)

For examle, with mail virusses of local users (with a large ISP) you dont
see those in a ORDB alike thing. Since we drop (silently) a lot of mass
worms... We still have to process those. So dropping if # = >5 would be
ok for me. Saves CPU load.

Bye,
Raymond.