OT: Postfix pre-MailScanner Policy Daemon

[Drew Marshall]

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Kai Schaetzl wrote:

 Drew Marshall wrote on         Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:32:21 +0100:

  

 Well worth a look as a supplement to MS.
    

 Not really. MS cannot check or rejct at MTA level. ONly the MTA can. 
  

No sorry, you misunderstood me. What I meant was not suggest that
MailScanner does anything with the SMTP transaction but to suggest an
option for Postfix users to lighten MailScanner's load in a more subtle
way than the usual 'one RBL and you are out' technique of Postfix's RBL
look up system. I like it because it reduces the chance of FP. Even if
one of your best customers or suppliers etc does get themselves listed in
a RBL they won't get rejected as the points score will still let them
through (Provided they have set their MTA up correctly). The other half
of this is that I wouldn't use it by it's self, hence it is a supplement
to MailScanner not a replacement or alternative etc.

 There's a sendmail.cf hack for sendmail available for about ten years 
doing what http://robtone.mine.nu/postfix/ does, it just doesn't score, 
but that's not important in this case.
  

I think the scoring piece is important as it makes it more reliable but
that's IMHO :-)

Drew

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