Running as a Milter?

[Scott Silva]

on 10/10/2007 6:01 PM Jay Chandler spake the following:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 10/10/2007 3:21 PM Jay Chandler spake the following:
>>> Now that Postfix supports a milter interface, has anyone had any luck 
>>> getting MailScanner to run in-line so it can reject during the SMTP 
>>> conversation?
>> MailScanner doesn't work that way. It isn't a milter. If you want to 
>> reject inline, there are milters that will do that.
>>
> 
> Yeah, that's a bit unfortunate.  I was under the impression that using a 
> milter might have been an interesting direction to go in as far as 
> getting MailScanner to run inline.  Unfortunately, I'm as close to being 
> a developer as I am to being a nuclear physicist, so I'm probably not 
> the man to do it...
> 
> 
Mailscanner works much better the way it is designed. There are many ways to 
stop content at the early phases. You can use blacklists at the MTA. You can 
use milters, (clam has a milter, and so does DCC, and there are all sorts of 
milters for spamassassin or url scans).

-- 
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You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!