On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) <mkitchin.pub...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/5/2010 1:52 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >> My approach to doing something like this would be to have a rule that >> matches the names (however you implement it), and then have the MTA >> check for that particular rule hit and bounce the message if it exists. >> This is the same way you generally use the VBounce plugin. Then do the >> same thing for your "bypass" rule. >> > That is pretty much what I wanted to do. The best way I know to make Postfix > use SA is with Amavisd. >> >> Spamassassin can use whatever custom rule you care to come up with. It >> will happily use a regex with hundreds of names listed. The question is >> whether the rule would cause a noticeable slowdown in processing speed. >> The only way to find out is to try it. Using compiled rules would >> probably help here. >> > Thanks. We are looking at roughly 70,000 names and always growing. If I gave > it sufficient hardware, would you expect that to be practical, or is that > totally ridiculous? Any options for a database look up here? > >
Use your database to generate rules for clamav. You could even remove the stock clamav rules if you want. Matching the body for 70,000 names would probably take less than 0.1 seconds.
