Hi<div><br></div><div>you need to do a lookup on each address rather than keeping it a file you have to maintain - smf-sav can do this quite easily although it's main purpose it to check senders it can also check recipients </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html">http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Martin Hepworth<br>Oxford, UK<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/4/30 Mail Admin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailadmin@midland-ics.ie">mailadmin@midland-ics.ie</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The unknown recipients would solve a lot of the problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I’m not sure if I can get my head around this though.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The Server has some local domains with pop3 and the big domains
I relay on to their Exchange Server.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I’d love to put all the valid exchange users in a file and
allow the system to only accept for thes valid addresses, but is there an easy
way? So my exchange domains I lookup a file of addresses and other local
I use the access file?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Thanks</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info" target="_blank">mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Martin
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<b>Sent:</b> 30 April 2009 10:26<br>
<b>To:</b> MailScanner discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: MailScanner slowwing down</span></p>
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<p>See</p>
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<p><a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips" target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin" target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin</a></p>
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<p>Dropping unknown recipients and having a local caching
nameserver are generally the first things to sort, then look at the number of
children and batch size...</p>
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<p>2009/4/30 Mail Admin <<a href="mailto:mailadmin@midland-ics.ie" target="_blank">mailadmin@midland-ics.ie</a>></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Hi All,</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Recently I am finding that the amount of incoming mail
through my MailScanner Server is really slowing down things. There
is a heavy load now since I took on a domain that seems to me well spammed.
Yesterdays processing processed 22,000 emails @88% Spam approx.</span></p>
<p>Server Spec POWEREDGE 1850 XEON 2.8GHZ/2MB 800FSB – WITH 2 GIG RAM and
RAID 1 Configuration on two Disks RPM 10K… Its Running Fedora Core
5, Send Mail 8.13.8-1.fc5 with MailScanner 4.69.7-1 with SA, Razor, DCC.,
MailWatch V1</p>
<p>Its working very well blocking spam, but only in the last couple of days its
got really slow. </p>
<p>Any ideas on how to reduce the load on this server>? By blocking mail at
the MTA before it hits MS? OR Tweaking my processes?</p>
<p>What do the Experts think on the Server Spec, for the amount of traffic?</p>
<p>I’d appreciate any help</p>
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<p>Regards</p>
<p>Kevin</p>
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