Frank Bures
fbures@chem.toronto.edu
Mon Jan 16 13:43:55 UTC 2006
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For my own understanding I wrote a little dccm, dccifd and dccproc functionality comparison that follows. Am I right in my assumptions? dccproc: Mail is piped to dccproc from procmail. Dccproc adds X-DCC headers to mail and if '-c' criteria are met, exits with exit code 67. Procmail recipes can be subsequently used to process such mail giving sysadmin full control over the filtering. Greylisting does not work in dccproc. dccifd and Spamassassin: dccifd is fed mail by Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC plugin to Spamassassin. dccifd does not add any headers to the mail, but if '-t' criteria are met, the mail is flagged as spam by Spamassassin. Outside of DCC's own controls (whitelist, blacklist etc.) user has no control over what is flagged as spam. What I mean by this is that once the mail is flagged it cannot be unflagged without external tools. Greylisting does not work in dccifd. dccm: Dccm is plugs into sendmail by milters. It works at MTA level. Consequently any mail that meets '-t' criteria is rejected by sendmail directly and outside of DCC's own controls, uses has no way of accepting such mail. Rejected mail cannot be "unrejected" at all. Greylisting works in dccm. Am I correct? Any comments and enlightenment would be appreciated. Thanks Frank Frank Bures, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto, M5S 3H6 fbures@chem.toronto.edu http://www.chem.utoronto.ca PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=Frank+Bures -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0 OS/2 for non-commercial use Comment: PGP 5.0 for OS/2 Charset: cp850 wj8DBQFDy5UL5kszaG0XLB4RAijTAKC7t1AK05UYP+fj2AM8+jdTPz9GowCeNZ4Y pMXV4NiEHuAXNpWB2dTluIE= =0g2C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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