Re: [exim] Load Based Grey Listing

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Johann Spies
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Load Based Grey Listing


Johann Spies wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 07:36:52AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>Here's something I'm testing out - greylisting based on server load levels:
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>I use a different strategy - not greylisting - and it seems to work.
>My load problems are normally caused by spamassassin and as I only
>scan incoming mail I do the following:
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>smtp_reserve_hosts = 146.232.0.0/16 # (our internal network)
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>smtp_load_reserve = 10
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>Which causes the system to issue a temporary error to incoming mail
>until the load average drops to 10 or lower.
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>
>Regards
>Johann
>
>


I use that too on higher load levels - but I figure why not cut the load
in the short run by temporilly deferring mail that is probably spam
forst allowing the ham to be processed.

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