Hi, You can probably tune on the settings first I think. I had an Athlon XP, 1.5GB, sata software raid1 server which topped at 8million spam/day. Of course it was very loaded but still no lost mail. With your config and ~1.1 million mail/day you should be ok.
But to get back to your original question: There are multiple levels where you can do it. Deciding which to use depends on the type of filtering you'd like to achieve. Here are them from low to high: - Get a geoip db, get the US ranges and do a separate chain in your firewall and whitelist those. update it about once a week. I use this to block Chinese traffic on some servers. You'd just do the opposite. - Patch the kernel and add geoip support and drop all non-us traffic to your smtp port. - Patch the kernel and do an AS based filtering. You will still need to get the AS list. - Similar to the above iptables chain you could do a similar thing from tcpserver or ipvsd. You could also set up some IP limiter which will block much of your spam traffic while not blocking the non-us world in general. The ways of the Net are endless :D Regards Bgs Kyle Quillen wrote: > When you say do it on the IP level what do you mean? > > > Well based on my spamassassin graphs it is about 8000 messages on a ten > minute average. spamassassin is what is killing me. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks > Kyle > > > > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 17:25 +0200, Bgs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I think you'd better do it on IP level.... much more efficient. >> >> May I ask how big is that traffic that causes the problem? mail/day, >> cuncurrent connections, etc. >> >> >> Regards >> Bgs >> >> Kyle Quillen wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am dealing a very high load on one of my servers and it is causing all >>> kinds of issues. It is a qmail toaster box with 6 gigs of ram and >>> quadcore 3.2 ghz processors. What I am wanting to know is there a way >>> that I can block all non-us ips in spamdyke? >>> _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
