Philip Prindeville wrote: >> From Perl? But the whole thing's pretty silly anyway -- unless your >> server is very unusual, you can hard-code its IP address(es) in your >> filter.
> (1) it makes it turn-key so that neophytes can use it more easily; Neophytes shouldn't attempt to use MIMEDefang. Anything that pretends to make MIMEDefang usable by neophytes is a bug, not a feature, IMO. :-) > (2) you can run the same config on a cluster of servers unmodified; On a server whos IP address does not change, you can extract it in filter_initialize. It's only invoked once per slave, so the performance overhead is negligible. > (3) mobile users with dynDNS can use it. Users on dynDNS are likely doing so little e-mail traffice that the performance hit of running ifconfig per message isn't an issue. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
