[Mimedefang] Does postfix have a milter equivelant?

Stephane Lentz Stephane.Lentz at ansf.alcatel.fr
Mon Feb 24 16:15:01 EST 2003


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:28:04PM -0500, Eric Wood wrote:
> guess not.
> -eric
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Wood" <eric at interplas.com>
> > I think I understand that MIMEDefang is for sendmail only.  I know nothing
> > of postfix and I'm not thinking about switching, but does postfix have an
> > equivalent spam fighting method as sendmail's milter?
> >
> > -eric wood
> 

=> Postfix does not really have some API like Milter.
It only proposes some content filter feature( see
README_FILES/FILTER_README)
Have a look at through Google at "Difference between Milter and Content
filter " :

http://groups.google.fr/groups?hl=fr&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=ao1ddf%242a9s%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpostfix%2BMilter%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dao1ddf%25242a9s%25241%2540FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw%26rnum%3D1
http://groups.google.fr/groups?hl=fr&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=a6kgun%24dlp%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpostfix%2BMilter%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Da6kgun%2524dlp%25241%2540FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw%26rnum%3D4
http://groups.google.fr/groups?hl=fr&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=aoi1tj%2426t5%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpostfix%2BMilter%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Daoi1tj%252426t5%25241%2540FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw%26rnum%3D3

regards, 

SL/
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Stephane Lentz / Alcanet International - Internet Services



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