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[Les Mikesell]

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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