* Steve <steeeeev...@gmx.net>: > > I'm no expert on German law, but I do know that there are other > > German system administrators who are not running amavisd in pre-queue > > mode, so I wonder if perhaps someone has given you an overzealous > > interpretation of the law. > > > I think that the original sender knows about the law. I am not a German but > I think that the German law says that you ARE ALLOWED to drop any message as > long as you don't have accepted the message. So having amavisd running in
For the books: Currently lawyers in Germany disagree on WHEN a message has been accepted - when you accept the connection or at the end of DATA when the server says "OK". > pre-queue allows you to DROP the message and just send a normal SMTP error > code. That is allowed by law. This is what most of the German laywers seem to agree on, yes. > But you are NOT ALLOWED to accept the mail and then later doing some > processing where you ERASE/DROP/WHATEVER the mail. This is not allowed by > law. So you accept the mail -> you have to deliver the mail. Unless the message proves to be harmful... > That's probably the reason he wants to run amavisd in pre-queue because this > would allow him to fight spam/malware and block spam/malware and drop > spam/malware without having to accept the mail. Usually one would want to drop unwanted messages as early as possible so they don't waste ressources by later inspections. > > amavisd can run in pre-queue mode but it is not a recommended > > configuration for performance reasons. "it is not a recommended configuration" unless you know your average load and how your mail system can handle it. p...@rick -- All technical answers asked privately will be automatically answered on the list and archived for public access unless privacy is explicitely required and justified. saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH): <http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
