> Having Imail block access at the SMTP level is probably not > effectively more lightweight than Imail rejecting unknown > recipients.
I don't agree with that. Especially with ODBC userbases, the resource savings can be quite phenomenal. However, I do agree with your conclusion that, since reactive IP blocking is getting more and more hopeless, offloading the entire userbase lookup to another machine (and I prefer LDAP) is optimal. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange Addresses into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
