Matt wrote: > The list is updated every 5 minutes based on Spamassassin scores. Any > servers that score less then zero are added but removed if they send a > message that scores over 5. Entries are only kept if they have been active > in last 28 days. >
I'd not worry about 5K, then. I *would* suggest something 'cron'ish to advise you if it suddenly started growing more than expected. > Cannot believe how effective greylisting has been in reducing volume of > email. > > Matt > No Freudian slip, that one. Too bad it isn't all spam. Similar isue with our hard-fail on rDNS. Brutal. But efficient. Bill > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:33 PM, W B Hacker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Matt wrote: >>> I have this entry in exim.conf: >>> >>> defer log_message = greylisted >>> !hosts = net-lsearch;/etc/virtual/trusted_ips >>> Basically I do not want to greylist any of the IP's in >>> /etc/virtual/trusted_ips. Is there a limit on the number of IP's I can >> have >>> in this file? I have about 5k IP's in it right now. >>> >>> Matt >> Other than time-to-traverse, I'm not aware that Exim itself has a limit. >> >> Your file-system DOES have limits, but you are probsbly not even close to >> it by >> two or more orders of magnitude. >> >> EX: Just did an 'ANALYZE VERBOSE brownlist;' and find 954,773 IP-based >> records >> here, though those are in a PostgreSQL DB, not raw fs. >> >> At 5k IP's, not sure a Database Engine would meet 'payback' criteria. >> >> If this is a fairly static list, OTOH, a CDB or such might be a better move >> than >> *either* flat-file or SQL RDBMS. >> >> HTH, >> >> Bill >> >> >> >> -- >> ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users >> ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ >> ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ >> -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
