| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: anoncvs still slow |
| Date: | 2006-05-30 17:52:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20060530175221.GU59464@pervasive.com |
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On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:14:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> >AFAICS, this is caused by the machine attempting to relay thousands and
> >thousands of spam emails (some quick checked showed a rate of about 1
> >spam / 5 seconds enytering the queue - and I know I deleted almost
> >20,000 from the queue)
>
> And how exactly would you like me to fix *that*? The reason those were in
> the queue is because svr4 is a legit MX record for the mailing lists ...
> the messages are being delivered into svr4's mail queue, and
> mail.postgresql.org subsequently refusing htem because they are for
> invalid addresses ...
>
> If I remove svr4 as an MX record, its just going to move to a different
> machine ...
>
> So, how exactly would you like me to "fix" that problem?
Postfix allows you to specify a list of valid email addresses. It should
be a simple matter of specifying what all the valid mailing list email
addresses are.
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