[Mimedefang] Mimedefang and sendmail queueing

[David F. Skoll]

Austin wrote:

> An idea (no testing, or real assurance that it would work) would be to
> use MD to write a Socketmap (look in the manpage for mimedefang-filter
> in the section SOCKET MAPS), then write some m4 for sendmail.cf that
> will do the appropriate lookups and piriority/delivery queue/mailer
> assignment.  Hmm, perhaps you could define a different mailer DSMTP
> (Deferred SMTP) that did what you wanted, then use that for the
> affected mail.

That'd probably work, but be aware that socket maps can be pretty
slow.  We used to use socket maps to control mail routing on our
commercial appliances, but quickly went back to Berkeley DB files for
performance.

Regards,

DAvid.