Re: anoncvs still slow

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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