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List:       spamassassin-users
Subject:    Re: remmonded max children settings
From:       John Hardin <jhardin () impsec ! org>
Date:       2010-05-22 14:01:05
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.1005220659030.13650 () mercury ! impsec ! org
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On Sat, 22 May 2010, John GALLET wrote:

> This stopped dead "spam outbursts": your 8000 mails per day are NOT 
> received in a linear way, but everytime a spammer sends you a "batch" 
> and you just can not keep up: who would drink from a fire hose ?

Question: are you utilizing any SMTP-time DNSBLs? Many admins trust the 
Spamhaus Zen DNSBL enough to reject at SMTP time based on it. That would 
also tend to reduce your load (though, granted, not as much as firewall 
rules!)

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