smtpd_delay_reject = no ?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Alexey V Paramonov
<pl...@profsolutions.ru> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a good solution to make my postfix server operate faster.
> My setup is Postfix + Policyd-weight + fail2ban, but nothing helps under
> heavy load, and the problem is not with the server performance (CPU load is
> not so high, about 30%), the problem is in the number of
> smtp connections to port 25 - it's about 400-600 and "normal" users just
> can't get through and connect to the server to send their mail (they get
> "server timeout").
> Policyd-weight filteres such connections, but it doesn't drop them - seems
> like it holds them open for some time and gives penality for each mail send
> attempt, closing them only after N retries.
> Is it possible to drop such too fast reconnections from same IPs using
> Postfix or maybe iptables?
> Or, maybe there is another way?
>
>

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