[Mimedefang] Sendmail::Milter

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

"David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> Matt Garretson wrote:
>
>> Anyway I guess we're getting away from what the OP was asking
>> (rate-limiting with a milter) but I don't have any ideas about 
>> that.
>
> Rate-limiting with a milter is not a good idea; it's very heavy-weight
> even if the milter is written in finely-honed C.  You're much better
> off using the built-in Sendmail 8.14 rate-limiting facilities or even
> OS-level packet-filtering facilities.

You may be right in case of typical "medium+ load production server".
[ I would not disagree strongly without "practical tests" first ]
In my case I do not expect the spamtrap server to achieve 
peak minute throughput higher than one message per second 
(after iptables protections) unless DDoS occurs :-)

More precise description in my case would be 
"avoiding accumulating excessive evidence" :-)
[ I use trapped spam to send abuse reports via spamcop.net ]

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