[Centos] mimedefang & milter-greylist packages

[henkvl at cs.uu.nl (Henk van Lingen)]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:36:58AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
  > > 
  > >   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.

  Yes, and I state you can do that with postfix: (what is 'useful'?)

  http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html

  Whether it is wise is another thing. I do virusscanning after smtp-accept,
  to prevent load surprises. As long as you don't join those idiots that
  bounce virus errors... 

  Cheers,

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