Re: Improving performance for shared hosting

> After using TMDA for a few years my host recently set the tmda-filter
> script permissions to 0 to prevent me from running it. I noticed this
> only a day later when I investigated my lack of arriving mail.
> 
> It turns out I am now receiving so many messages that the tmda-filter
> script is being reported as exceeding the shared host load limitations.
> 
> I don't want to stop using TMDA, so I have considered writing a C
> program in front of TMDA which provides fast, basic filtering.
> 
> However, before doing that I want to know if I can expect to increase
> TMDA performance significantly, and how I should go about it.
> 
> Further, is there already a convention in place for testing tmda-filter
> as a standalone run-once script? I presume it would be something that
> simulates the environment variables qmail sets up for preline programs.

It appears -autocdb has greatly improved performance.

Time will tell if the host finds this acceptable.

-- 
 kai