Performance issues with MS and SA

[Martin Hepworth]

Couple of things that can ridically reduce the load is have the inbound MTA
reject on invalid recipients.

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:sendmail:how_to:reject_non_existent_users


Other is greylisting which Stevef did a recent study on and still found it
to be very effective.


You don't mention if you're doing either of these

also

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin

must update that last one as the rulesemporium stuff can be ignored now.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK


On 31 March 2011 23:49, Jonas <jonas at vrt.dk> wrote:

> Hello Donald
>
> Maybe I'm a big thick headed but I don't see you mention what your
> performance issue is?
>
> You say you process 150k mails with 4 servers each with 4 cores (that's how
> I read it anyway)
>
> But what is the problem, are you incoming mail queues too big, or do you
> expect a quick increase in mail volume in the near future?
>
> Or do you simply want to optimize your setup, and don't have a problem per
> say?
>
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