On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:26, Atanas wrote: > I'd like to share something that already works for me for about 2 > months. It's extremely simple, fast and reliable: >
[code snipped] > The above is a stripped down version of the greylisting code only. It > just creates or updates greylist entries (one empty file per entry). > There's also a cron job for cleaning any expired entries, something for > authenticated users to bypass the greylist, a whitelist per relay IP and > recipient domain, simple HELO checks, etc. > > It's not a rocket science and anybody knowing perl could write it, but > if anyone is interested I could post the whole thing, it's probably just > about 2-3 times bigger than the above. > > For me it handles about 3M greylist entries and so far I had no > problems. It runs on a single box together with Mimedefang/SA/Clamd > processing about 350K messages a day. Before the greylist implementation > the same box was hit by 550-600K messages a day, so the greylist > effectively stops about 30-40% of the email traffic. Some time in the > future I'm planning to share it among multilpe mimedefang machines over NFS. > > Disclaimer: I'm not a perl programmer. The above code works for me, but > might not work for you and/or could have bugs. I tried to make it > efficient, but possibly it could have been written better. > YES, PLEASE make it available. Preferably post it on your website for only those interested. Caveat is acknowledged. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PATH tech _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
