In the current version, you'd have to edit the source and it's not a small change. In the upcoming version, I've already reordered the tests this way. Changing the order will still require editing the source but the changes will be much smaller (I've refactored the filter code quite a bit).
spamdyke checks DNS RBLs first because it tries to find a way to reject the incoming connection as quickly as possible. For example, if the connection matches a DNS RBL and you're not using sender/recipient whitelist files or SMTP AUTH, spamdyke will not start qmail at all -- it will imitate an SMTP server long enough to reject the connection. When I wrote that code, I judged it was more important to close qmail than to prevent DNS queries. Because so many spamdyke installations are using sender/recipient whitelists and SMTP AUTH, this logic has become outdated. -- Sam Clippinger Marc Van Houwelingen wrote: > I have a domain that is constantly bombarded with incoming spam. The > spam comes in by the thousands, all to random names @mydomain.com. > Spamdyke is successfully blocking all of them using > recipient-blacklist-file to block the domain and > recipient-whitelist-file to allow the 10 or 15 actual legit exceptions. > > This works great - but the problem is Spamdyke usually rejects most of > this incoming junk for other reasons (RDNS, RBL, etc) before even > checking the blacklist file. The net result is the same of course, but > my mail server ends up having done a bunch of extra DNS/RBL lookup work > when it could have rejected the email simply based on the recipient. > > My question is: Is there a way to make Spamdyke check the > recipient-[black|white]list-files before doing the other resource-costly > lookups? > -Marc > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
