[Mimedefang] Poll: Other MTA's

[Albert E. Whale]

If you keep the Milter Version with all of the features, then everyone
wins.  However, if most of the functionality is lost, isn't this a New
Product?  I think that the concept of interfacing Before the SMTP Server is
an implementation alone which will put this in a New Product Category.
Certainly something of this nature could be implemented in Shops requiring
that the Sendmail Configuration never be touched (i.e. Big IT Departments),
But with this rational usually comes many hoops before implementation is a
reality.

Just what I've observed.

"David F. Skoll" wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Nels Lindquist wrote:
>
> > I am, however, curious as to what kind of a framework you envision
> > for this.  I'm assuming there would have to be MTA-specific
> > functions, depending on whether the MTA supported milter-like
> > capabilities or not?
>
> What I envision is a daemon which listens on port 25 and relays commands
> to the real mail server.  So you have something like this:
>
> +-----------+         +---------+             +-----------+
> |  Sending  |-------->| MDefang |------------>| Real SMTP |
> |   Relay   |<--------| Daemon  |<------------| Server    |
> +-----------+         +---------+             +-----------+
>
> The MDefang Daemon and the Real SMTP Server may or may not reside on the
> same host.  Scenario:
>
> Sender -> MDefang                  EHLO
>           MDefang -> Real Server   EHLO
>           MDefang <- Real Server   220 foo.bar.com ESMTP
> Sender <- MDefang                  220 foo.bar.com ESMTP
>
> ... etc
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
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