Re: ISP Level Postgrey
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:16:30 +0200
"Marek Podmaka" <marki@onee.sk> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Greylisting should not be CPU intensive - it's just comparing triplets
> from+to+ip with database. So the problem is database itself. I don't
> know BerkleyDB much, but I think 1.7GB is too much for it and then
> every update takes so long.
>
> I don't know if it's possible to get the database smaller for your
> amount of mail. We receive ~20.000 messages/day and postgrey db is ~20
> MB. Are you sure the maintenance is working without errors? It should
> produce statistics to syslog.
>
> Another option for large scale sites may be rewriting postgrey (or
> making your own grelisting daemon) using some real database such as
> mysql.
Or use another greylisting tool, like SQLgrey [1] that's a fork of
postgrey and work with many DB (also Mysql).
[1] http://sqlgrey.sourceforge.net/
bye,
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Marco Bertorello
System Administrator
http://bertorello.ns0.it
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