In there kernel there is some network scheduler stuff you should look into. Then go get shaper and set up according to your needs.
-- Dan On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:53:46PM -0500, Jacques Beaudoin wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
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