[Mimedefang] Poll: Other MTA's

[Nels Lindquist]

On 11 Jun 2002 at 15:24, David F. Skoll wrote:

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> So the daemon "listens in" on the SMTP conversation.  (It can do
> processing before deciding to forward a command from the sender to the
> real server.)  If the message is rejected, for example, it sends a
> RSET instead of forwarding all the message content.  Some abilities
> will be lost -- there's no way to delete recipients based on message
> content, for example, and any sort of IP-based blacklisting or relay
> control will have to be done by the MDefang Daemon.

I would assume that things like SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS/SSMTP would 
become difficult or impossible as well.

> It might be a convenient and simple way to get MIMEDefang to work
> with any mail server, though, so the tradeoffs might be worth it.
> Be assured that even if I implement this, the Milter version will
> still be the main one and the one with best features and support.

Oh, good. :-)

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Nels Lindquist <*>
Information Systems Manager
Morningstar Air Express Inc.