Well said. It wouldn't be spamDYKE at that point. ;) Bgs wrote: > Spamdyke is an smtp level filtering system while virus filtering is at > the data level. Absolutely different by design. Spamdyke is fast because > it does not bother to handle data. If you add virus filtering to it, it > would be "just-another-virus-scanner-with-dns-checks". It would loose > most of what it makes valuable. to be able to virus scan you need to > queue the data, which takes hdd space, IO, queuing system, etc. Right > now data is just passed through. With tls you would loose overview > anyway so part of the mails cannot be filtered. > > > Bye > Bgs > > > Olivier Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:39 +0200, Marcin Orlowski wrote: >>> Sam Clippinger wrote: >>>> I'd love to be able to do spam and virus scanning within spamdyke, >>> But what for? There's couple of tools you can use to scan (for whatever >>> you want) incoming mails before they go to the user mailbox and drop >>> mails when needed. Absolutely pointless feature to be added to spamdyke >> Yes, but not always on SMTP-level, and IMHO it's better there since the >> sender (if he's in the 3-4% of non-spams) will get an error message from >> his smtp server in case of problems. Otherwise it will be "silently >> dropped", and it's unpractical to debug issues... >> >> regards, >> Olivier >>
-- -Eric 'shubes' _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
