On 2004-02-11, Administrator penned: >> > Ok, I made the changes you suggested, as of now Im using tmda-cgi to > move pending to the blacklist, but Im still very very quickly running > out of HD space. What is a good way to automate the cleanup of > pending? I have the cleanup set to 100% and the lenght of time to > hold a message to 3days which I think it about the bare minimum. This > is a small personal system for me and some friend but Im down to less > than 20M of free space with all the spam. It looks like if I request > to confirm is bounce the messages sit in the pending for the full 3 > days this isnt good since Im getting nearly 2000-5000 per day, if not > more. Again this is temporary as I do have a new machine Im building > to replace the server that has much more space but that wont happen > till the weekend. >
Pardon me for not looking up your original post ... I strongly suggest running some virus or spam checking software as a prefilter to tmda. For example, I have procmail call spamassassin and run a few other filters before tmda ever sees any mail. Then tmda checks the message for headers that SA may have attached that indicate spam. One of the things I do in procmail, though it could be done in tmda instead, is to check for certain virus signatures and delete those messages. I also have tmda drop any messages that have attachments ending in .exe, .scr, etc that aren't from someone on my whitelist. Sending out challenges to every virus mail you get is not a great idea. It increases the load on your network and the recipient network. It means that you are keeping the spam around rather than just deleting it. It means that people who probably never even sent you the virus are getting confirmation requests, which will annoy them. TMDA is awesome, but its challenge/response mechanism doesn't have to be the only tool in your toolbox. It doesn't make sense to challenge spam when you could easily identify it and trash it without wasting bandwidth and space. -- monique _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
