[Mimedefang] Off Topic - Mail Message and MySQL

[schmaus]

> I've been thinking about logging such messages to an RDBMS
> as well, though it's not been a high priority yet.  After
> some preliminary hacking and knowing what kind of load MD
> + SA put on high volume servers, I'm thinking that the
> better route is to use the quarantine functions with the
> filter akin to the samples in the distribution, and have a
> separate task (cron driven) that loads data from the
> quarantine directories.  I don't like the potential impact
> of DB connection overhead or down DB servers to the filter
> and mail throughput.  Just my $.02 ...
> ... Phil

Phil,

Your idea makes sense, but my mimedefang_filter already
inserts  all the other data (sender, recipient, score and
subject) to the DB.  The problem is when my web interface
goes to retrieve the data, including the raw message, I
would prefer to get it from the database and not the
MIMEDefang directory.  In other words, as messages are
quarantined, I would like to push them into a DB and not
have them saved in the MIMEDefang dir.

Benjamin