Scott Truman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of interest, how many checks and how much traffic is created by > the net checks in SA2.63 and SA3.0 by default (with say two received > headers and 1 URI)? SA3.0 will introduce more I guess, with the > introduction of SURBL (the bitwise multi.surbl.org will help though).
I think it's on the order of 25 DNS queries for an average message. Bear in mind that fewer should actually be going outside your network due to DNS caching. [ and in another message ] > yes, but it all adds up...and aside from that, something irks me about > using 20-30kb of internet traffic to determine that a 2kb email is > indeed spam, especially if I had a chance to do it via local tests > alone - I don't want to waste anything more on the idjits :) If traffic matters to you, then don't run network tests. We only use DNS blacklists that want to be used, so if we're not worried and they're not worried, why be worried? Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/
