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Re: [milter-greylist] is this a DoS?

2004-05-27 by Matthias Scheler

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:50:10AM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> >But you should consider virus filtering before greylisting. I'm not
> >surprised your greylist database grew so big if you greylist viruses. 
> I wonder how you'd do that. Given how milter and greylists works, it 
> looks impossible to me. Greylisting happens before the body of the 
> message has been received, so you can't run a virus scanner before 
> greylisting.

And it is a bad idea anyway. Virus checking causes a lot of load on
mail server. So it is good if milter greylist blocks virus even
if that makes the database bigger.

	Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/

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