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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 18:05:32 UTC 2007
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 13 octobre 2007 à 19:46 -0500, Les Mikesell a écrit :
>> 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
>
> and other MTAs than sandmail support the milter interface (and they also
> have non-milter alternatives to MimeDefang)
As far as I know, none of the other MTA's are completely compatible with
sendmail in the way (or whether) they expose details that the milter
needs to know, like whether a message was accepted with smtp
authentication and/or ssl encryption, so I don't think any will
currently work with MimeDefang, although it might be possible with some
work. And the non-milter alternatives generally suffer from one or
more of running under the mailer uid, starting a new process for each
scan, making the whole process wait for slow operations, or only having
the results after the smtp conversation is completed.
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Les Mikesell
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