[Centos] mimedefang & milter-greylist packages

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:40, Henk van Lingen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:43:43AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>   > 
>   > I never understood why all the mailers that make a big deal out
>   > of being more secure than sendmail by splitting the jobs and using
>   > separate uids for their processes left out the part you really need,
>   > which is a hook to scan content before accepting at the smtp level.
> 
>   I didn't follow this thread but I do think postfix supports filtering
>   at the time you want. You can do body/headers checks at smtp time and
>   you can hook in stuff like virusscanners both after and before queueing.

To be useful, it needs to be done before the SMTP accept is done - 
that is, concurrent with the conversation, and preferable running
under a different uid than anything else.

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  Les Mikesell
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