[Mimedefang] sendmail as mail proxy

[David F. Skoll]

On 8 Jul 2002, Tim Kramer wrote:

> I tried to use MIMEDefang in a heavy production environment
> using BSDi, Linux, and FreeBSD.  I was limited to these three
> choices because of the available (already purchased) command
> line virus scanner.  In each case, there was a technical
> obsticle which needed work.

Could you elaborate?  Was the technical obstacle related to the OS,
to MIMEDefang or to the virus scanner?

> Since then, I've experimented with "adapting" MD to run from a
> script rather than as a  milter.  (Which has it's own drawbacks
> but appears to be much more stable on the older commercial OS.)

Older BSDi's have rotten pthreads support, which is why milter doesn't
work too well.

Regards,

David.