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[Les Mikesell]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 08:02 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>> I know it is fun to pick on sendmail, but it works well and I can use
>> it to do things not easily done in some other MTAs.
> 
> Examples?

Running MimeDefang is a good example.  MimeDefang runs as a milter, does 
whatever spam/virus scanning and other processing you want, controlled 
by a small perl script in real time during the smtp conversation so it 
can reject based on the results.  However it does not need a 1 to 1 
ratio of perl processes to sendmail processes and does not make fast 
operations wait on slow ones due to the way the milter interface handles 
separate steps.

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   Les Mikesell
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