Are there risks involved with turning on messenger express filtering

Question

Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)
libimta.so 6.2-4.03 (built 04:37:42, Sep 22 2005)
SunOS ims-a 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
The following doc describes how to turn on messegger express filtering:
http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6266/postinstall.html#wp19950
We're wondering if there any risks involved with turning this on. Why isn't this turned on by default?
Thanks,

Answer 1

jeffbeck wrote:
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)
libimta.so 6.2-4.03 (built 04:37:42, Sep 22 2005)
SunOS ims-a 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480RYou may want to consider updating this to a later patch release e.g. 118207-63 if you want to stay on MS6.2 or 120228-25 if you want to upgrade to MS6.3.
The following doc describes how to turn on messegger express filtering:
http://docs.sun.com/source/817-6266/postinstall.html#wp19950
We're wondering if there any risks involved with turning this on. There are the obvious risks i.e. something new/different is a risk and of course users will be adding sieve rules to their accounts which increases load on the messaging server MTA. You would need to add a lot of rules to be a problem though.
In general though the risk is minimal.
Why isn't this turned on by default?Customer who run messaging server don't necessarily have a webserver installed which is required to host the MailFilter.war so it isn't enabled by default.
Regards,
Shane.