[Pymilter] Capacity data point

[Stuart D. Gathman]

I installed pymilter-0.8.5 to stop a severe spam problem.  The gateway was
a 400Mhz Celeron with 256Meg ram.  Running at 100% capacity, the machine
could filter about 120000 messages/day checking SPF and other 
items (e.g. hello_blacklist), delivering about 100 mostly legit messages/day.
The spam was coming in a rate of 2.5Million / day (as tracked by iptables).
Although the spammers give up easier, the resulting backlog was resulting in 6
- 12 hour delays for incoming legitimate mail.

A faster server would handle the load, but we opted to use spamsoap.com
to prefilter.

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	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
    Business Management Systems Inc.  Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.