[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang Digest, Vol 165, Issue 5

Dianne Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Aug 29 09:19:47 EDT 2017


On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 20:49:41 -0700
Amit Gupta <amit777 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Regarding your comment about the downside is that it would "Hold open
> more connections and use more milter threads."  I wasn't quite sure
> what you meant by "using more milter threads"?

mimedefang (the C program, as distinct from mimedefang-multiplexor) is
multi-threaded, and it holds open a thread for each active SMTP session.
So there will be more threads active if sessions are queued than if you
don't queue sessions.

Regards,

Dianne.



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