Re: Virus emails
On Monday 22 September 2003 16:53, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > helps catching 95%... But the bandwidth is still used... I'm still
> > looking for a pure MTA solution...
>
> A pure MTA solution would still need to scan the body and thus would still
> eat your bandwidth.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think an MTA rejecting a mail because of oversized body
doesn't have to get the whole body before rejecting the mail. Based on this,
it should be possible to reject the mail before it gets fully transfered to
the server.
Mike
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