As we took yet another look at our mail server today, I realized that
instead of rejecting mail for unknown recipients (which is usually
spam), our server was bouncing it. Not a good idea -- the mail queue
had 2,000 messages in it this morning, of which the majority were for
unknown recipients ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). So we did what we should
have done a long time ago and changed the configuration to simply reject
them. And we lowered the error threshold so that any server that sends
us even a small number of bogus messages in a row sees a substantial
slowdown, then a disconnection if they keep it up.
A few other tweaks, too, but probably far too geeky to bother mentioning
here. The result is a mail server with a far lower load, which I sure
hope will greatly reduce or eliminate the periodic long delays we've had
in getting Brin-L mail out the door over the last few months.
We'll see.
Nick
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Nick Arnett
Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198
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