Gary V write,

> On 1/16/08, Rajkumar S wrote:
> > The term  'originating' flag comes up quite often when I am searching
> > to exclude some mails (from particular ip, SMTP AUTH and localhost)
> > from scanning.  But I could not find any docs specifying what it is.
> > Any pointers to docs will be helpful here.
>
> search:
> http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/release-notes.txt
> for: policy banks now contain a new key 'originating'

Right.

> Appears to me (could be wrong) some routines need to know whether
> a message originates from us (client is in our network, client is
> authenticated, etc.) and once this state is known (or once it is set),
> it's more efficient to store this info in a single boolean variable than
> it is to calulate this state each time it's needed. Plus, having the
> state in a single variable makes it easy to manipulate.

Yes, sort of. It is not a matter of efficiency, but setting the
state of the originating flag is the only way that amavisd can be
told whether a message was submitted from our users (from internal
networks or by authenticated roaming users), as opposed to all other mail.

  Mark

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