On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:53:01PM -0500, Mike Coughlan wrote: > > > My view on this (here, now) is : > > > If it is trivially easy to flag the virus within the existing SA > > > framework, why not? > > Because I like how viruses are dealt with by my mail virus checker, and I > fear this will interfere. > > > > > Just three more lines in the config file, and easy enough for users to > > > turn on/off. (you can also argue - then add it to my own configuration > > > - and that is valid too) > > I would prefer this go into an optional "virus" or personal config. > > I would also stress that this may be false advertising. I understand that > you may not be on Windows, but others running Spamassassin might be tempted > to try and deal with mail virus at this level, and it is really not he right > way. > > Granted some might want to kill the noisy ILOVEYOUs, but there is no limit > to the possible virus names, and no limit to possible rules. This has the > potential to snowball. >
I agree thouroughly. At the moment, my (very slow) system takes up to one minute per message (when only one message is being processed), and up to 20 minutes when heavily loaded. Needless to say, we do NOT need any superfluous tests. -- Duncan Findlay _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
