[Mimedefang] When is filter_relay called as a milter plugin?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon May 12 10:08:00 EDT 2003


On Mon, 12 May 2003, Geoff Thornton wrote:

> I've been testing some basic filter_relay rules, but when I test them out (I
> use an interactive telnet on port 25), the mimedefang-filter subroutine only
> seems to be called after I send the "MAIL FROM" command instead of the
> "HELO" command like I would expect.

That is correct.  This is done to defer any calls into the filter code
until we have a Sendmail queue-ID.  As you note, this delay has almost
no practical effect.

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David.



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