[Mimedefang] Making an md5 key of the body
Chris Myers
chris at by-design.net
Wed Mar 28 10:48:07 EDT 2007
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Chris Myers wrote:
> [... code snippet ...]
>
> Your code snippet looks like copied from a production server; I wonder how
> much time the calculation adds to the mail scanning process, you don't get
> any timeouts from sending MTAs, do you?
Not unless some thoughtless person sends a (multi) hundred megabyte
attachment, in which case other parts of MIMEDefang are sucking up far more
CPU than a simple little MD5 calculation.
The average message size is about 6-10KB (getting larger due to image spam),
so the time to calculate the hash of a message is usually microscopic. And
if you think about it for a while, you can use the hashes as a key to
information calculated about previous (identical) messages so you don't have
to calculate that information again.
Chris Myers
Networks By Design
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