Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:37, Jesus Climent wrote: > > > account via Debian machines, I guess the reduction in bandwidth usage > > > by master and murphy is not to be taken lightly. > > > > The bandwidth reduction will only happen if you decide to discard the mail, > > since the mail will always be accepted, scanned to find the IP which > > originated the message, the IP will be checked agains the database and then > > the mail will be tagged. > > The usual implementation of DNSBL systems is to check the client IP address > as > soon as the TCP connection comes in, and disconnect with an appropriate error > message if it's an IP address that you don't like. > > That saves a lot of bandwidth, and the mail is not discarded, it is left on > the sending machine to be bounced in an appropriate manner back to the > sender.
I think you missed the point: tagging mails is fine to everybody but not blocking/discarding/bouncing mails (that can be done later, by user, with their procmailrc). So as only tagging will be done, no bandwidth will be saved. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english