Using sendmail to redirect selected email

[Mike Kercher]

I can't see ANYTHING that works on a per-user basis being very scalable!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steven Schmidt
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:57 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Using sendmail to redirect selected email
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On a per user basis.
>
> The mailertable works fine for whole domains (The frontend serves many
> domains) and individual redirects for single email addresses
> work fine, but is not very scalable. (Can forsee a problem
> once many single redirects are in the config and each
> sendmail process having to read through them every time. CPU heaven)
>
> Cheers
> Steven Schmidt.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CAMAROSS.NET>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Using sendmail to redirect selected email
>
>
> > By selected customers, do you mean on a per user or per
> domain level?
> >
> > For per domain, use the mailertable feature on your sendmail box.
> > Have
> that
> > box deliver directly to the maildrop for each domain.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steven Schmidt
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:30 PM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Using sendmail to redirect selected email
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I have a bit of a scaling problem.
> > >
> > > Senario.
> > > Frontend box running Sendmail which redirects email traffic for
> > > selected customers to a box running MailScanner.
> > > MailScanner does the Spam/Virus check, then forwards to final
> > > maildrop.
> > > For non-selected customers, it forwards the mail though
> to the final
> > > maildrop directly.
> > > I am using a redirect statement for each redirect customer in
> > > sendmail config to redirect selected email. Works fine but is not
> > > very scalable.
> > > (Works fine for a couple of thousand, but if I want to go any
> > > higher, will need to change the way I'm doing it)
> > >
> > > Anybody else using sendmail to decide who gets scanned and who
> > > doesn't.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > > (Have been considering qmail, but this would require
> major changes
> > > to the
> > > frontend)
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Steven Schmidt.
> > >
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