>> It needs to be a transport sink, or at least work with one in order to prevent ongoing issues with brute force spam floods. <<
Huh? Why would it need to be a transport sink? Why first accept and store the message - and then generate bounce messages (in case it's a false positive)? Scanning at protocol time will take just as long (a few milliseconds) - but you'll be able to drop connection as soon as you determine you don't want the mail. This way, the other party has notice in case of FP and you are not responsible for generating bounces and you are not going to spam job-jobbed users. In a protocol sink, the sink can pass the in-memory email directly to the Sniffer service - no need to write to disk/read from disk and starting command-prompt tasks etc etc. Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 07:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [sniffer] IIS SMTP Integration Sanford Whiteman wrote: >Incidentally, it is a transport sink, not a protocol sink, meaning >that envelope rejection is not possible. I can't defend this as solely >a choice made for stability, as it was also a choice necessitated by >my prototyping in VB (and, though it's been in production, it's not >much more than a prototype due to the lack of docs). > > Yes, that really is a key issue. It needs to be a transport sink, or at least work with one in order to prevent ongoing issues with brute force spam floods. I'm not sure that Peter from VamSoft understands the large market out there for non-Exchange based setups, or even for going the extra mile that is necessary for this stuff, though that might be an issue with resources and not just simply understanding. Matt -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ ===================================================== This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
