When you say option checking mx what exactly do you mean?

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On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 18:57 +0200, nightduke wrote:
> But have you detected spam are from USA?
> Have you check your logs? Do you know who is messing your server?
> You can try stats at your maillog file also if you use mrtg can find
> more information too.
> 
> Do you have rbl list working? Graylisting on? option cheking mx ? Many
> options...
> 
> Spamassassin uses a lot of recourses.
> 
> It's a nightmare to block certain of ips, but a very big nightmare
> will be blocking a whole country.Don't you work with companys at USA?
> 
> I hope this help, it's an idea, don't get angry with myself.
> 
> Nightduke
> 
> 2008/5/23, Bgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >
> >  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?
> > >>>
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Kyle Quillen
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