Re: [AMaViS-user] Auto-whitelisting

Robert Felber wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:45:26PM +0200, mouss wrote:
>
>> Henrik Krohns wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any plans for auto-whitelisting in Amavis? Meaning: skipping the
>>> whole SA processing if there is enough low-scoring mails from some Sender/IP
>>> or so.
>>>
>>> I'd like to reduce the time to scan "certain" ham, like some large
>>> mass-posting lists, which don't seem to hit Amavis ham-cache.
>>>
>>> If I undertand correctly, I might achieve this also with own SA plugin and
>>> the new shortcircuit feature.
>>>
>>>
>> the best approach from a perf viewpoint is to skip amavisd-new
>> altogether.
>>
>
>
> In most cases one doesn't want to skip virus filters but spamfilters.
>

I agree. clamsmtp can be used for this (if one wants to let amavisd-new
focus on spam filtering), or amavisd-new with different ports and
policies (if one wants to minimize the number of packages on the system).
> Footnote:
> mutt, pine & co are not insusceptible from being affected by exploits
> and worms. I don't want to travel down to chance-computation.
>
>
>
>

agreed again, even if years of clickware have driven me far from
"text"-based agents and increased my vulnerability...


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