On 24/05/13 02:07, Eric Shubert wrote: > On 05/23/2013 03:35 PM, Lutz Petersen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> Which in some extreme cases where session had 9000 recipients led to multi >>> GB log file. >> >> Imho you should configure your Spamdyke not to accept such nonsense. There >> is absolute >> no reason to accept more than a dozen recipients. Use e.g. this in your >> spamdyke.conf: >> >> max-recipients=15 >> >> And you'll get off those defect hosts.. > > I agree Lutz, and use this setting myself. I think that Teodor is > referring to something different though.
> While qmail sends only one message per smtp session, the smtp spec > allows for multiple messages to be sent in a single smtp session, > however rare that might be. I expect this is what Teodor's seeing. > > The spamdyke docs say that max-recipients is applied to the connection, > not each message, so use of this option would certainly help (more so > than if it was applied to each message as I believe chkuser does). Sam, > will you please confirm that this is per connection and not per message? > > It appears to me that spamdyke has a bug in how it's logging this type > of session. I'm interested to see what Sam finds with this. Eric is correct here. We are going to add a reasonably low value max-recipients and it is going to mitigate the problem to some extent, but still at max-recipients=15 we'd have 15+14+13+12 etc. totalling 120 log entries (arithmetic progression). -- Teodor Milkov | System Administrator | ICDSoft Ltd. _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
