On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003, at 17:25 Europe/London, Nico Erfurth wrote:
>> exiscan-acl surely reduces your traffic ... you don't actually get the
>> body of the email transferred
>
> Hu?
> exiscan-acl works AFTER the mail is received, and BEFORE a response
> for DATA is send, so it doesn't reduce your traffic at all.
>
> exiscan is made to scan the body of the mail .....
hi Nico
thanks for correcting my understanding of that
so, for my clarity, when my mail server issues a
> acl_check_data:
> deny message = This message contains a nasty evil file extension \
> ($found_extension)
> demime = vbe:vbs:vbx:wsf:wsh:exe:com:cmd:shs:hta:bat:scr:lnk:pif
the exe has _already_ been transferred over to the server here? but is
then discarded and the 550 response sent?
Zaw
