On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Chad Walstrom wrote: > The key with any of this kind of software is that you want to pull > apart the email message once, then run all the tests upon it's > constitutent parts in one shot. Kind of hard to do for SpamAssassin.. as I understand it, some of the tests rely on getting a copy of the entire message. > One of the biggest detractor for me regarding any type of server-based > email filter daemons is that they also try to be local delivery > agents. It may "make sense" from a single-server, performance-nazi > standpoint, but for flexibility and scalability, proxying is a far > better way to go. If you can manage to use SMTP proxying, you don't > have to impact how the end-user manages his/her own emails. Which e-mail filters have you run into that try to be the local delivery agent? Sendmail+MD and Exim+Exiscan certainly don't.. you can configure them to scan relayed e-mail as easily as locally delivered. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list