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Re: [milter-greylist] blacklisting from uribl

2009-01-16 by manu@netbsd.org

Petar Bogdanovic <petar@...> wrote:

> As long as you're doing checks against the message body, you are
> processing the message. Just because the processing may take place
> during the SMTP conversation, doesn't mean that it will claim less
> resources.

MIMEdefang will really parse the message, and perhaps it creates
temporary files. That consumes much more ressources than just reading
the message in memory and looking for some patterns.

Implementing it in milter-greylist could have merits IMO. 

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

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