[Mimedefang] Order of processing for sendmail/MD

Anne Bennett anne at encs.concordia.ca
Tue Sep 30 10:52:00 EDT 2003


> I'm looking for a detailed "order-of-processing" list that indicates how
> the access db, milter relay/sender/recipient checks, virtusertable, and
> mailertable interact to determine whether sendmail will accept a message
> (and some of what further processing to do once accepted):

http://www.encs.concordia.ca/~fig/public/email/relay/milter+ruleset-checks.html

has at least part of what you want, I think.

> -> Is there any way to make sure that MD as a milter *DOES* full
> processing on mail destined for "local" hosted domains, while still
> bypassing everything other than the AV scans on
> outbound-to-other-servers dialup/DSL mail?

Well, you have full control of the mimedefang-milter, and you can scan
the recipients lists (and even check the mailer triples for them as
determined by sendmail) to decide what kind of processing to do for
the message...

Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Sysadmin, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
anne at encs.concordia.ca                                    +1 514 848-2424 x2285



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