OT: Sendmail REJECT or DISCARD preference

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Steve Campbell wrote:

~ > I have to agree with you on your "thinking" part. I sort of ask this
| question originally to verify what I thought I knew to be fact, but as
| usual, I'm having to rethink my conceptual ideas.
|
| I did try to change all of my DISCARDs to REJECTs to see if there was an
| immediate difference. I seem to have a small problem of slowness
| whenever I get bombarded with hundreds of spams. Today was a good day to
| test my changes, as I had quite a few in incoming, and was already
| monitoring my LA. I was hoping to see my backup of incoming messages
| drop a little faster along with a reduced LA once I used REJECT based on
| the fact that I would spend less time on new emails arriving for the
| incoming queue. After rehashing the access file, it showed no
| improvement, so I'm not sure whether there is an advantage or not, so I
| changed them all back to DISCARDs. Only for the simple reason that
| Friday is not a good day to make changes and leave for the weekend.
|
| I have to thank everyone, though, for all of the thought provoking ideas.

Wether you DISCARD or REJECT them is propably not that much of a
difference on your system. The main load will not be your MTA. MS, SA
and friends eat up much more resources.

But the argument in favor for RECJECT is bandwidth. And some relay test
that will not get a REJECT will considere your system open and send you
even more rubbish.

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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