On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Justin Edmands wrote:
We have a few thousand vendors in our websites database that I would like to
add to a whitelist. I am thinking of
creating a /etc/mail/spamassassin/corewhitelist.cf from this database.
What are the limitations/ repercussions of using a sitewide whitelist? If I
have 2000 addresses in the whitelist,
will it take an extra 3,30,60,etc. seconds to process an email? base the
performance off of a 2GB RAM 1vCPU 5560
Xeon virtual machine.
What if this list grows to 20000 entries?
What exactly do you want to whitelist?
1) specific full e-mail addresses of those vendors who will be sending you
e-mail from their remote system? (EG joe-sm...@vendor.site.com)
2) URL/domain names of their site (IE anything referring to
http://vendor.site.com)
If specific e-mail addresses, do they have SPF/DKIM/etc support on their
outgoing mail systems? (IE can you use whitelist_auth ).
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