Re: [exim] Reducing load vs seeing all the spam

* Daniel Bendersky wrote (06/03/05 14:58):
> Hi, I use similar order on the ACL's and just 2 weeks ago I moved the
> RBL checks to the "connect" ACL instead of the "RCPT" ACL. This little
> change, speed up my servers and reduce the load from 3 to 0.5
>
> After thinking about it, is obvius that if we filter by IP, i.e. using
> RBL, why not filter at the connection time if we just need the IP info
> and nothing more? That way we don't do checks that are expensive and not
> necesary.

I understood that there was an argument for waiting until after RCPT, on
the grounds that it's not polite to reject mail to postmaster even from
blacklisted hosts. Or is this not sensible on a busy server?

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Chris