>Is there some sort of a limit on the header_check.regexp file.
"practical" limit :)) > My >header_check file is quite large and now cleanup brings my server to a >crawl. if you aren't using pcre:, then switch to pcre: and get 30+ times efficiency. also, put some kind of "tag" in the REJECT text so you can search logs for it. If a header rule hasn't been triggered in the last two weeks, then consider the rule to be deadwood. > As soon as I disable header_checks my load on my server goes way >down. Is there something I might be doing wrong. trying to catch spam with adding very specific header and body checks is expensive in your time and very probably not doing much % of total rejects. Len
