[Avcheck] avcache announcement

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:00:58PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> Ralf, this may be a better idea/solution for your exact problem.  How
> about using Message-ID field instead of checksum as a key?

The message-id can be forged -- specified by the sender. 
I don't know how qmail generates (if at all!) message-id's for mail
that was intended to be multi-recipient mail.

It should be a checksum of the mailbody. Fefe's opinion was that there
could be collisions (which is true), but given the fact that the cache
is very short lived (10 minutes), this should not be a problem.

> For others: the problem is that on Ralf's environment, qmail is used
> for initial mail submission, and many messages are destined for multiple
> recipients.  As a result, postfix receives many copies of the same msg
> (qmail sends one-rcpt-at-a-time) and checks many msgs as well instead
> of only one.

Correct.

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