You wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Harald Schneider wrote: > > > is there a chance to see SMTP dialog filter hooks in the next release? > > > > Hooks after each SMTP command and after each data line would be a nice > > thing, e.g.: > > > > So a script could also do anti spam and anti virus checking on the fly, > > aborting conversation without accepting the whole message. > > I do not believe in online SPAM filtering. Because of a huge load on the > server and because SPAM messages are typically very small.
But online AV filtering might be nice. If an AV filter could trigger a 552 fatal after receiving DATA, that message would surely go to the 'real' sender and avoid the bandwidth waste - and stupidity - of sending virus warning notifications around the world. The same kind of reason for issuing a "5xx mailbox unavailable" during SMTP rather than accepting everything and sending user unknown notifications. Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
