Milter-greylist

manu@... wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > 
 > > Just a quick question (not related to the poll):  Does
 > > milter-greylist support calling a local executable for
 > > checking, as a more efficient replacement for urlcheck?
 > 
 > If you call a local executable, you fork a process on each query.

Not necessarily.  A single process could handle multiple
queries (i.e. read one query from stdin, write result to
stdout), and it only needs to be restarted if it terminates
for some reason.

 > I'm not sure it's more efficient.

Performing HTTP requests with all of the overhead of a
webserver (Apache or whatever) plus CGI or PHP script is
_definitely_ less efficient.

 > urlcheck relies on curl to perform the query, so you can query any URL
 > supported by CURL. I guess you can use a telnet URL against a local
 > executable launched by inetd.

Uhm, that wouldn't be very efficient either.  :-)

Best regards
   Oliver

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