Feature List - startup script enhancement

[Julian Field]

The milters should be started and stopped independently of sendmail (and 
hence MailScanner). Your milters should have their own init.d scripts.

What are you adding the "whitelist entry" to?

I use 2 or 3 milters with sendmail (and MailScanner) and don't start or 
stop the milters at all.

Kevin Miller wrote:
> I don't know if this would be easy to implement or not, but thought I'd
> throw it out anyway.  
>
> I'm using sendmail with milters and adding a whitelist entry is a
> (minor) pain because I have to stop MailScanner, then the milters, make
> the edit, then restart it all again.
>
> Naturally, the milters have to be started before sendmail.  MailScanner
> starts the sendmail daemon, of course, so what I was wondering is if the
> MailScanner startup script could be modified such that the milters are
> started before sendmail.  Since there's no way to know what milters are
> running, or how many, the script would probably have to have something
> like a PRELOAD (and probably POSTUNLOAD) variable pointing to a text
> file listing the milters to start - say, /etc/MailScaner/milters.conf.
> If it's empty, it's skipped.  If not, the milters are loaded before
> sendmail or postfix or whatever.
>
> If that's easy, I think it would be a nice feature.  If it's a pain to
> implement, then don't worry about it.
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Kevin
>   

Jules

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