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Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning
From: John Hardin <jhardin_at_nospam>Date: Mon Nov 01 2010 - 13:17:14 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Russ Sanders wrote:
> The system is a basic Linode running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with 512M of memory.
Any way to add more RAM?
> Suggestions will be appreciated.
You want to do things at SMTP time to reduce your email volume.
Greylisting has been suggested; I see good results from it here.
Rejecting messages that do not have a FDQN in the HELO string works well
for me, too. I use milter-regex for this as well as for some other tests.
Are you open to SMTP-time reject based on the Zen DNSBL?
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