Comments on: Mail Turbulence http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/07/26/mail-turbulence/ Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Thu, 24 May 2012 19:21:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Clay Dowling http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/07/26/mail-turbulence/#comment-5991 Clay Dowling Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:53:16 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/07/25/help-wanted-iewin-script-weirdness/#comment-5991 I noted your email problem. I suffered from a similar problem until recently. My server never crashed, but it did become terribly overloaded and nearly useless. Since it is also the family print server, this was a problem. The solution I used was OpenBSDs' <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd" rel="nofollow">spamd</a> with greylisting. This technique has dropped nearly all of the spam and puts very minimal load on the server. Since you probably aren't running OpenBSD currently on your mail server, conversion isn't something that you're going to want to do. You can instead install OpenBSD as a firewall on something old and small. In addition to the spam firewalling it can act as a general firewall for your network. I don't know if this will be the solution for you, but it's certainly made life happier in my household. I noted your email problem. I suffered from a similar problem until recently. My server never crashed, but it did become terribly overloaded and nearly useless. Since it is also the family print server, this was a problem.

The solution I used was OpenBSDs’ spamd with greylisting. This technique has dropped nearly all of the spam and puts very minimal load on the server.

Since you probably aren’t running OpenBSD currently on your mail server, conversion isn’t something that you’re going to want to do. You can instead install OpenBSD as a firewall on something old and small. In addition to the spam firewalling it can act as a general firewall for your network.

I don’t know if this will be the solution for you, but it’s certainly made life happier in my household.

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