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[Ben Rosengart]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:02:59PM -0700, Adrian Otto wrote:
> 
> I'm all for keeping things simple, but let's think about this from another
> angle before we dismiss it. Running the messages through procmail to strip
> out unwanted headers is a good approach if you were planning to have
> procmail in the mix already. However, if you need to drop headers to get the
> message evaluation accuracy you want, then it forces you to use procmail or
> maildrop to get tht funcitonality, even if you were not already using them.

Just formail or reformail, which are much smaller than procmail and
maildrop.
 
> I'm concerned about having multiple instances of applications starting up
> all at once and pipelining them together. With a high volume mail system,
> this could eat up valuable resources quickly. System administrators in this
> situation will be looking for ways to reduce the number of applications that
> need to be started in a command pipeline to deliver a message. One way to
> address this is to have the ability to drop any header you want within
> bogofilter.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

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