Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Louis Theran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Stumpf) writes: > simply by having qmail-smtpd read in about 700 MB rcpthosts and > qmail-remote read in a 300 KB smtproutes file on every incarnation. > a cdb would do any good here, as the lookup would be faster, but a cdb > is even bigger than the plain files. When q

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Alex Pennace
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:28:18AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: > However one of our mailservers is sitting on an elder machine with only > one disk (we're moving it to a newer/fast machine with raid by now) > and what I did is experience the last weeks was a performance loss > simply by having qma

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:00:08AM +, Mark Delany wrote: > > Reason being, anyone can point their domain's MX records to your server > > and then freely send mail to/through it. Nope ;-) If I would implement it I'd have a small file e.g. "mxips" which would contain IPs/IP ranges and only if a

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Mark Delany
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 08:49:54PM -0500, Jamin A. Brown wrote: > Sendmail has a switch to turn this on, which is off by default... > > Reason being, anyone can point their domain's MX records to your server > and then freely send mail to/through it. > > I'm curious to know if qmail starts havin

Re: rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Jamin A. Brown
Sendmail has a switch to turn this on, which is off by default... Reason being, anyone can point their domain's MX records to your server and then freely send mail to/through it. I'm curious to know if qmail starts having performance issues at higher numbers of rcpthosts. We're currently running

rcpt/backup mx based on IP ?

2000-12-19 Thread Markus Stumpf
Our rcpthosts file ist getting quite big, adding all the domains we're doing POP Boxes for and those our customer request backup MX for. Has anyone thought of/patched qmail-smtpd to accept messages based on the IP of the MX records? Are there any pitfalls that I don't think of in the moment that