Matt, I am suprised that this doesn't exist in the plugins directory - is there a place that I can download the complete plugin?
Thanks, Max On 4/16/06, Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15-Apr-06, at 9:28 PM, Max Clark wrote: > > > As I have been watching my qpsmtpd logs I have noticed that regardless > > of how high I set the max connections (currently 100 with 5 max from > > ip) we seem to consistently run steady at the limit. It has made me > > wonder how many of these connections are garbage and could be avoided > > all together. > > > > I am thinking about running some analysis on the remote hosts to > > identify for each ip, host, and domain how many messages have been > > received that were identified to be spam, virus, or clean mail. The > > idea would be to then take this information and create a ratio - if > > the threshold is crossed then the remote ip, host, and/or domain would > > be blacklisted/greylisted for a period of time. > > > > What do you think, is there value in this approach? > > Most definitely. It's used a lot in the anti-spam "industry". > > In fact wasn't that the basis of one of the plugins I wrote for the > qpsmtpd article on O'Reilly? > > Matt. > -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com
