> From: Dave Ewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:18 AM
<...> > Well, yes: but that applies regardless of whether you've launching it > from procmail or not :-) Well, not exactly. I don't know enough about Exim to know if it can operate this way, but if you do your AV/content filtering during the SMTP transaction, you can reject with a 550 at the end of data. That is a lot better than silently discarding messages after accepting them. Yes, that keeps the TCP connection open a long time, but for a small to medium sized system, that should not be a big issue. The real savings is in rejecting before data based on a variety of measures, terminating the connection much sooner and saving a lot of bandwidth. If you do enough of that, you can cut down the number of messages that you allow to go into data, and thus require AV/content filtering, to the point that it is much less of a load on the system. -- Seth Goodman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
