Your right MarK I have raid 5, 10,000rpm disks, 4 gig of memory, 2 xeon 2.0 mgz and my server performance is great.
A-minute-Pop3-users make me laught more then anything but i dont want to have 1,000 new A-minute-pop3-users next week. Email is great but if I want to reach somebody within a minute I'l phone him thats want they have to understand. Jacques > While it's definitely annoying, that's one thing I love about dbmail: It's > an indexed SQL lookup, rather than a mbox-style > trudge-through-a-10Mb-file-to-fine-there-is-no-new-mail approach. > > With enough memory, and especially with the MySQL 4.0 query-cache; it barely > causes a performance hit. > > /Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacques Beaudoin > > Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 3:16 p.m. > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Dbmail] What to do with POP3 spammers > > > > I have my dbmail+postfix+amavis_new+fprot server running > > and im blocking 7000 spams+virus a day (2,555,000 per year !outch!). > > > > Well so much for spams comming from the internet. > > > > Yesterday i made a small script using a mysql querry > > and the linux sort program to get a cumulative > > readout of there last_login. > > > > And via cron i executed that script at every minutes > > for 3 hours to get a summary for the 3 hours. > > > > Well i have more then 400 POP3 spammers (teachers with phd). > > > > Some have setup there pc to check for mail every minutes > > others at every 2 minutes and others at every 5 minutes even > > if they where ask not to do that. > > > > I plan to make a other script to send a automatic email to all > > the pop3 spammers. > > > > Does anybody have a other solution ? > > > > 1 - Have dbmail 2.0 refuse rapid pop3 queries > > but what the heck there getting to dbmail anyway > > 2 - Quick there derriere > > 3 - Fire them > > 4 - Send them back to school so they no 60 x 24 = 1440 pop3 > > querys a day > > 5 - Send them back to school so they can help me write scripts > > 6 - > > 7 - > > 8 - > > 9 - > > 10- > > > > > > Jacques Beaudoin > > Responsable des accès internet / Internet security manager > > Commission scolaire de la Pointe de l'Ile / School board > > Montréal, Québec, Canada
