Re: Milter Suggestions - ReadList.com

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Milter Suggestions
\ Kirk Bocek (8 May 2008)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (8 May 2008)
. . \ Kirk Bocek (8 May 2008)
. . . \ Victor Duchovni (8 May 2008)
. . . \ (Wietse Venema) (8 May 2008)
. \ Bill Cole (8 May 2008)
. . \ Kirk Bocek (8 May 2008)
. . . \ mouss (8 May 2008)
. . . . \ Kirk Bocek (8 May 2008)
. . . . . \ mouss (8 May 2008)
. . . . \ Kirk Bocek (9 May 2008)
. . . . . \ mouss (9 May 2008)
. . . . . . \ Noel Jones (9 May 2008)
. . . . . . . \ Kirk Bocek (9 May 2008)
. . . . . . \ Kirk Bocek (9 May 2008)
. \ Kirk Bocek (8 May 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Milter Suggestions
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	mouss
Date:	8 May 2008

Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
>
> Bill Cole wrote:
>> http://www.postfix.org/MILTER_README.html
>>
>> A key fact on that page:
>>
>> * Postfix 2.3 does not support Milter requests to replace the message
>> body.
>
> Yep, I see that. Thank you Victor and Wietse for reminding me too.
> Although upgrading to 2.4/2.5 is a possibility, Administration will be
> easier if I stick to the standard CentOS 5 packages which is
> unfortunately 2.3.3.

it's actually easy to use newer versions (you can use Simon J. Mudd
packages or srpms). you just need to exclude postfix* from your yum
.repo file.
>
>> If you have a working MIMEDefang configuration that you'd rather not
>> translate into some other sort of tool that works with 2.3.3, you can
>> use a 2.4.x or 2.5.x version of postfix and get body replacement,
>> which is necessary to do the modifications you describe. I have
>> dropped in Postfix 2.4.x in place of Sendmail on systems using
>> MIMEDefang without needing to change the MIMEDefang setup at all.
>
> Nope, I am not tied to MIMEDefang at all.

a common choice is amavisd-new, in an (after the queue) content filter
mode. but what kind of rewrite do you do?
>
>>> Can anyone suggest a similar utility that will work with postfix 2.3.3?
>>
>> You *should* be able to reproduce what you are doing in MIMEDefang
>> with amavisd-new and altermime or Anomy Sanitizer, but that may
>> depend on exactly what you are doing with MIMEDefang.
>>
>> The positive side to switching to that approach is that it is a more
>> common toolset with Postfix than is MIMEDefang, so there's a richer
>> potential for "community support" when you need it. With MIMEDefang
>> and a modern version of Postfix you may have less work up front, but
>> you are largely on your own if you were to run into issues.
>
> I kinda gathered from the lack of resources that MIMEDefang isn't a
> good match with postfix. I will take a look at the tools you recommend.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> Kirk Bocek