Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:09:55 +0930 UTC (8/14/2004, 8:39 PM -0500 UTC my > time), Paul A. Hoadley trunco scripsit: > > >> Reducing the number of processes spawned will certainly help some, > >> but a better idea is to not have so many files in a single directory > >> - that is just asking for trouble. > > P> I'm not sure that I can make qmail do anything else. These are spams > P> sent to non-existent addresses at my domain, being caught by > P> .qmail-default. > > Question... why do you have a .qmail-default file to begin with? If you have > proper namespace or .qmail- files for your users, it is not necessary at > all... all would then be bounced. Or if you wish just to drop mail coming in > to .qmail-default, just put a # in it... > > P> What I am going to do is clear out the Maildir daily > P> instead of monthly, though. Collecting them has become a significant > P> drain on disk space---the 400K spams are the result of about a month > P> and a half of collection. > > I would never think of collecting them at all, not even allow them in. There > are several techniques just to block them at SMTP negotiation all together, > so they don't even enter your system...
I have to second this. You should never accept email destin for users that don't exist, you should bounce it with a 5xx error prior to even accepting the data portion of the SMTP transmission. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
