David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 08:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Milter is supported by alternatives too
They pretend to, but won't actually run complex milters like
MimeDefang.
Some of the better alternatives don't even _try_ to run milters, because
they are fully-featured enough in their own right, without needing to
rely on external software.
Which means that you can't run your choice of tests on a message during
the smtp conversation before you accept it - at least without starting a
new process for each one which is expensive for large programs like
spamassassin. And if you accept a message but don't deliver it, you are
supposed to generate a bounce to the sender, but that is always the
wrong thing to do if you think it might be spam or a virus. Running
your checks in time to do an smtp reject eliminates that problem.
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