Sendmail still default?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Oct 20 08:44:35 UTC 2008



Le Dim 19 octobre 2008 16:47, Les Mikesell a écrit :
>
> David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 08:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>> Milter is supported by alternatives too
>>> They pretend to, but won't actually run complex milters like
>>> MimeDefang.
>>
>> Some of the better alternatives don't even _try_ to run milters,
>> because
>> they are fully-featured enough in their own right, without needing
>> to
>> rely on external software.
>
> Which means that you can't run your choice of tests on a message
> during
> the smtp conversation before you accept it - at least without starting
> a
> new process for each one which is expensive for large programs like
> spamassassin.

Actually, you don't need milters to do this in postfix (but you can
use milters if you prefer)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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