On Monday, September 25, 2006, 12:14:43, David Gregg wrote:
>>> 1) IMail anti-virus scanning
>>> 2) IMail connection/DNS based anti-spam tests.
>>
>> Is this really the order it does it in?
>>
>> What's the point of accepting the entire message if you're gonna reject
>> based on IP address?
>
> Good point...  That's my understanding of the order.  Though it would make
> more sense to do the following:
> 1) IMail connection based anti-spam tests.
> 2) IMail anti-virus scanning
> 3) IMail DNS based anti-spam tests.
> Then the rest as detailed before.

IMHO getting to the DATA phase and doing CPU intensive tests (like
anti-spam scanning) should be after any DNS tests.

> Perhaps the Ipswitch guys can chime in on this one

Indeed, an authoritative answer would be nice.

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