[PLUG] Joe Jobbed

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Fri Oct 5 02:14:57 UTC 2007


alan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Russell Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Another thing to think about.
>>
>> Some of the people paying to have spam sent (they are the real crooks
>> here) are paying for the number of messages delivered, and some are
>> paying for the number of messages sent. It doesn't take too much
>> effort to make sure all the messages I send out are delivered
>> *SOMEWHERE*.
>>
>> As long as they aren't rejected, they are delivered.
> 
> I am seeing a big increase in mailbounce spam with the return address 
> being an admin address for one of my domains.  Most are from Russia.
> 
> Quite annoying.
> 
> I planned on installing policyd, but it requires using mysql.  I have 
> planned on rewriting it to use sqlite, but have not had the time.

That's what I've done. My policy daemon uses sqlite for tables
and tinycdb for relatively static lists. I'm pleased with the 
performance. However, my daemon doesn't fork (yet). If I made it
fork I'm wondering about sqlite concurrency issues. Do you have
any experience with this?

Ed




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