On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 16:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > for a couple of years now: > > > > http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2006/08/postfix-supports-milter/ > > > > Supporting the milter interface and actually running existing milters > that expect sendmail on the other side are two different things. For > example, milters may need to know if the connection is authenticated or > using SSL. If you are going to claim sendmail compatibility or be a > functional replacement you have to provide the same information, the > same way whether it was described in the interface documentation or not. > Postfix pre-2.4 didn't. It looks like it does now, but I still don't > remember any mentions of people actually using it on the MimeDefang > list. So? We aren't talking about auto migrating people's existing sendmail deployments, which would require a higher level of compatibility. We are just talking about changing the default, to one which the majority of users are likely to prefer (I appreciate that you have a different preference, but even you must realize you are in a minority). > And in any case, using MimeDefang as a sendmail milter eliminates most > of the complaints anyone would have with sendmail itself since it lets > you do the complex parts with control handled in perl instead of > sendmail's internal language. Again, that would be your opinion ... and it is different to mine. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
