On 09/19/17 09:10, rosjat wrote: > I like to get some opinions on where to use the spamd daemon. Is it > better to do the heavy stuff on the firewall or let it all pass to the > mailsystem and do the filtering there?
OpenBSD's spamd is not in any way a 'heavy' service. It's entirely possible to run it on the actual mail server, but I tend to recommend stopping unwanted traffic early and set up on the directly internet-facing host (aka the firewall). Whichever way you do it, after enabling spamd you will see the load on the content filtering machines drop considerably. There will be a lot less of the heavy computation tasks involved in content filtering that need to be performed. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
