dnk wrote: > Good day, > > I was just wondering... when someone sends an email to an invalid > user, does spamdyke still go through the graylisting process (as I > suspect it does), then releases to qmail if the conditions are met, at > which time qmail will reject as an invalid user? > yes > I ask because i was in the domain folder for one of my domains that is > hit with a lot of spam, and there were tons of folders (over 10,000 > for a domain that was added to my toaster only a few weeks ago) in > there (which I assume are the id's that a spammer was trying to > deliver to). > I face the same issue, inodes also were exhausted on my machine. (Hint to others: "df -ih" will show the inode count on at least BSD Unix flavours) > How are others dealing with this kind of issue? I had another server > in which a client had over 60,000 files and then I started running > into inode issues with the file system itself until I deleted a bunch > of the un-needed files.... I am just hoping to avoid that issue here > is the domain folders for all of my domains keep growing..... > I also seek a clean-up script but the problem is that it is not easy to determine which "to" addresses are invalid and hence which folders you can safely remove. (Of course, if you have few domains and know the user accounts well you can manage it manually). More details on determining valid recipient addresses see: http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/FAQ.html#SUGGESTION4
Other notes on the "graylist gobbles inodes" problem here: http://www.spamdyke.org/documentation/FAQ.html#SUGGESTION5 > I know i can write a script pretty easily to clean it up. Just looking > for more clarification..... regards. > yes, please! > DNK > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
