Spamdyke is an smtp level filtering system while virus filtering is at the data level. Absolutely different by design. Spamdyke is fast because it does not bother to handle data. If you add virus filtering to it, it would be "just-another-virus-scanner-with-dns-checks". It would loose most of what it makes valuable. to be able to virus scan you need to queue the data, which takes hdd space, IO, queuing system, etc. Right now data is just passed through. With tls you would loose overview anyway so part of the mails cannot be filtered.
Bye Bgs Olivier Mueller wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:39 +0200, Marcin Orlowski wrote: >> Sam Clippinger wrote: >>> I'd love to be able to do spam and virus scanning within spamdyke, >> But what for? There's couple of tools you can use to scan (for whatever >> you want) incoming mails before they go to the user mailbox and drop >> mails when needed. Absolutely pointless feature to be added to spamdyke > > Yes, but not always on SMTP-level, and IMHO it's better there since the > sender (if he's in the 3-4% of non-spams) will get an error message from > his smtp server in case of problems. Otherwise it will be "silently > dropped", and it's unpractical to debug issues... > > regards, > Olivier > > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
