It is rumored that on or about 12/2/03 1:19 PM -0800, Joe Wagner wrote as follows:
Hi all,
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First, much of our spam has Return Receipt requests. Did an easy way to turn off ever get put into the latest SIMS version? If not, reading the SIMS archives leaves me with the understanding that the Return Receipt string one has to munge cannot be edited with ResEdit, but rather a hexeditor on the compiled binary. That's a bit scarier. If so, anyone have the latest, already altered?
I posted a description of the hex editing solution and offered to send detailed instructions directly to anyone who sent me a private email. That offer still stands. Several people have requested the hack, and none have complained about any problems. However, you still use it at your own risk.
Second, is there some better way to be a secondary server, and make SIMS stored queued messages in one file rather than in a directory? My guess is that I'm finally hitting a wall there with SIMS (or rather OS 9). It can handle the load ok, until someone goes off line then my server grinds to a near halt and gets unstable as the queue directory gets in the 20k+ number of messages...
I would seriously consider not supplying or using secondary services. Most sending MTAs will retry for a day or so - let them handle the load. Depending on your ISP or DNS service, you may be able to use an offsite server as a secondary. In my case, I use the secondary services at EasyDNS. However, virtually all of the spam I get is sent directly to the secondaries - thus bypassing my SIMS filters.
-- Neil
Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON, Canada K2H 6B1 Tel: (613) 829-4668
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