Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 3 - How to stop spam?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Wayne Sagar wrote:

> On this same subject: I've been stripping whatever information I can from 
> incoming spam and then adding the information to the reject list in the 
> control panel. The list is getting rather long. Does this cause a 
> significant hit on performance on the mail server? How many entries are "too 
> many entries"

If you go over a few hundred, sendmail's map logic will start to screw up,
and it will start rendomly accepting things that are blocked, go to
www.spews.org, get the entire class c blocks and use those, you will have
smaller entries, and less spam from the clowns who buy whole ip blocks to
use for 'agile' mail servers ;)

ps: The gui may or may not detect duplicates, you should run make map hash
.. from telnet occasionally so see if you are getting duplicate key errors
;)

gsh