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[John Summerfied]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:45, David Cary Hart wrote:
> 
>>>Sendmail takes a 1-line change to the stock sendmail.mc file provided
>>>with fedora to make it do what most places would need.   If you are
>>>going to add virus and spam filtering, only sendmail provides the
>>>milter interface to run the scan during the smtp conversation and under
>>>a non-privileged id.
>>>
>>
>>That's incorrect. Postfix does that as postfix.
> 
> 
> Doesn't postfix have write access to your mail queue? The milter I run
> under sendmail has it's own workspace but can't write anywhere else
> including the mail queue.  By non-privileged, I didn't just mean
> non-root, I meant a different id than used for anything else.
> 
Postfix does not do milter. It can and does pipe through another process 
(eg spamassassin) before doing delivery, but that's after the SMTP dialogue.

Unless I've missed some new development. I was looking at MimeDEFang 
(however its capitalised) from Roaring Penguin (home of rp-pppoe) which 
does milter and therefore, then, could only be used with sendmail.

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John

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