On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > And this is my point. SA *DOESN'T* work on messages after they > have been received. Since I use spamass-milter, SA sees the > messages before reception is completed.
So, you're passing just the message headers through SA? Using a milter doesn't magically mean that you haven't received the body of the message yet, it just means that a third-party extension to Sendmail is allowed to review the message before Sendmail acknowledges receipt and attempts delivery to the next stage (procmail, relay, whatever). You've already spent the time and bandwidth and system resources to receive the entire message and process it through SA. So: why not save the resources consumed by receiving and processing the entire message *multiple times* (because legitimate messages will have to be almost completely transmitted at least twice in this model) and use an existing tool (greylist-milter) to do the greylisting early in the SMTP exchange? -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- What nuts do with guns is terrible, certainly. But what evil or crazy people do with *anything* is not a valid argument for banning that item. -- John C. Randolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
