Question - Feature request ?

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 22 18:51:53 GMT 2002


At 18:46 22/01/2002, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:19:56PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 15:17 22/01/2002, you wrote:
> > >What I'd *really* like is the config file to be split into a global
> section
> > >and a per-domain section (maybe each domain config could be in a separate
> > >file). Perhaps this could be done reasonably easily by running multiple
> > >mailscanner processes, one per domain, each one reading its own config
> file?
> >
> > The fundamental difficulty with all this is that a mail message may have
> > lots of recipients, all in different domains. So what do you do then?
>
>You "or" the features together, so the email gets everything that
>everybody would get.  That means that some people may get virus scanning
>as a freebie on mail messages that are sent to them and somebody at a
>domain that should get it.  Oh well.

What about delivery of postmaster messages, spam tagging, etc..?
--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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