On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 21:20, Joe Talbott wrote:
> What are your ideas on having the mbox scanning code handle
> attachments in-line rather than writing to/reading from the
> filesystem?  Due to the size of our mail system (~ 1 million messages
> per day) it seems disk access will be a bottleneck.  

I second this plea.  This is exactly the reason why we are not using it
here (we, too, process more than a million messages/day)

I think that it would be ideal to have a function that you can pass a
pointer to a MIME message in memory (possibly mmaped file), which would
parse it, decoding parts as necessary or scanning them in place when
possible, and return result code.  Once there is such functions, it will
be trivial to make wrapper suitable for any specific MTA.

OTOH, maybe it's better to have MIME parser separate from the virus
scanner...

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