On 11/13/2014 09:08 PM, Justin Edmands wrote:
We have a few thousand vendors in our websites database that I would like
to add to a whitelist. I am thinking of creating a /etc/mail/spamassassin/
corewhitelist.cf from this database.
What are the limitations/ repercussions of using a sitewide whitelist? If I
have 2000 addresses in the whitelist, will it take an extra 3,30,60,etc.
seconds to process an email? base the performance off of a 2GB RAM 1vCPU
5560 Xeon virtual machine.
What if this list grows to 20000 entries?
While it's not advisable to keep huge whitelists, depending on your
traffic, 2000 shortcircuited entries won't hurt *average* performance so
much so you'd feel it.
It all really depends on your expectations, needs and system load
without the WL.
What's the average load on that VM?
How many msgs/day
What's you're average processing time/msg?
How much of that traffic would be whitelisted?
Does a whitelisted sender get processed in under 0.5 sec?
