Re: Dealing with unreliable milters - revisited

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Dealing with unreliable milters - revisited
\ Mark Martinec (30 Nov 2007)
. \ Victor Duchovni (30 Nov 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (30 Nov 2007)
. . \ Mark Martinec (2 Dec 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Dealing with unreliable milters - revisited
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	30 Nov 2007

Mark Martinec:
> I would like to request a Postfix configuration setting
> which could override any attempts of some milter
> to reject or tempfail a message. It is unrealistic to
> expect milters to match the reliability standards of Posfix.

I also asked this question about ignoring tempfail replies. What
if the Milter has already modified the message? The result will be
inconsistent (from the user point of view; Postfix would not create
a corrupted queue file).

BTW it should be possible to configure Postfix so that it limits
headers to within Milter-acceptable limits. Most of the necessary
support for that is already there.

> Btw, the next version of amavisd-new is coming with its
> own direct support for DKIM signing and verification
> (using a Mail::DKIM module, thanks to Jason Long).
> It was fun to play with milters, they've accomplished
> their job, now it's time to get rid of them :)

I prefer a single-hop server.

Wietse