Unfortunately qmail does not reject invalid recipients at connection-time. Instead, it accepts all messages and generates bounces for any that can't be delivered. Because of this, spamdyke graylists all recipients, whether invalid or not. This can lead to inode exhaustion on busy systems.
qmail's design, combined with the large number of qmail queue processing scripts/programs, makes it very difficult to determine if a recipient is actually invalid or not. For the moment, I'm afraid we're stuck with scripts to clean out the graylist folders periodically. Any day now, I should be done with the principle coding on the next big version of spamdyke -- then I can move on to writing about 100 new test scripts and rewriting a large part of the documentation. I plan to add recipient validation in the big version after this one. -- Sam Clippinger 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? > > 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). > > 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 know i can write a script pretty easily to clean it up. Just looking > for more clarification..... regards. > > DNK > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
