Yes, probably 80-90% of the mails are rejected outright, but that still leaves about 30-40cps (on average) that get through. The majority seem to be various spambot addresses that haven't made it to blacklist territory yet. Don't have a tremendous number of blacklists in place, though: -r sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org -r bl.spamcop.net -r list.dsbl.org
Justice London [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 13:03 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote: > Are you using something more than the stock blocklist? That can reduce your > scanning load substantially. > > Justice London wrote: > > Yeah, but it's better than just getting the message rejected, which > > seems to be happening right now if something happens to spamassassin. > > This is bad since our clients then call and complain to no end. > > > > Justice London > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 21:31 +0200, Janno Sannik wrote: > >> seems dangerous since this could be exploited by hitting mailserver with > >> lot's of spam and getting it to go through that way > >> > >> Justice London wrote: > >>> Is there a way to get simscan/spamassassin to do a soft reject of > >>> messages, say under high load situations where spamassassin isn't > >>> responding properly? I have found that when spamassassin either can't > >>> accept a new connection, for whatever reason, that the client is passed > >>> a 451 error right away. Is there a way to instead just have simscan > >>> fail the spamassassin test and just pass the message un-checked? > >>> > >>> Justice London > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]