[Mimedefang] Multiple Milters w/ mimedefang
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Dec 5 17:11:40 EST 2008
Mike Weaver wrote:
> Are there issues one needs to be aware of when running multiple sendmail
> milters including mimedefang? Are there 'housekeeping' issues like if a
> early milter say, in the data phase, rejects or discards a message due a
> particular header, what happens to mimedefang's 'state' when it's data phase
> calls are made?
The closest I've seen to an explanation is:
https://www.milter.org/developers/overview#ControlFlow
I don't think there are any particular housekeeping issues from MIMEDefang's
perspective. If an earlier filter rejects the mail, then whether MIMEDefang
gets the data or just gets an xxfi_abort doesn't really matter --- it cleans
up either way.
If you'd rather not waste resources processing a message that has already been
rejected by an earlier milter, then you may be out of luck. I don't know
an easy way to determine that.
Regards,
David.
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