[Mimedefang] Validating Exchange addresses (was: calling action_bounce() for viruses)

[Kevin A. McGrail]

I read it to mean that you should make it a Perl Module and then just the
hooks to the module get added to MD though in re-reading, you are correct
that he was unclear.


> > Instead of making this part of MD, how about packaging it as a separate
> > process with a cache? This could be generally useful for a variety of
mail
> > server configurations, not just those that use MD.
>
> I'm not quite sure if I follow you... are you suggesting running this code
> as a daemon process?  You would still need to add code to MIMEDefang to
> perform the lookups to the daemon.  The only advantage I could see would
> be a potential caching of some information, but I'm not sure that would be
> justifiable.  Our site doesn't get a whole lot of mail a day (approx.
1500),
> and I've not seen any noticable performance impact yet using
> per-recipient LDAP lookups.