[Mimedefang] filter_data?

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Mark Sheppard wrote:

> I can't see any way of adding filtering when the DATA command is
> issued.  Is there a way to do this?

No, because milter doesn't allow it.  That's a deficiency in Milter,
in my opinion, and people have complained about it to the Sendmail
authors.

> At the moment I'm doing some filtering that needs to know all the
> recipients in filter_begin.  But by that time the message has come
> down the wire to us.  It'd be better to do this filtering before we
> get the message, i.e. in response to the DATA command.

Well, you waste a little bandwidth by doing it at the end of the
message instead of after DATA, but that's usually not a big deal.

Regards,

David.