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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
