[ale] Best MTA?

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Sat May 20 05:34:34 EDT 2006


Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> 
>> I do like sendmail's milter design, it still is superior to 
 >> anything that I have seen for postfix.
> 
> You mean other than
> <http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/MILTER_README.html> ? ;-)

Well, not exactly.  That URL above describes a "middle man" process that 
postfix uses to connect to milters.  Sendmail uses an API interface for 
milters, which IMHO is a much cleaner and more direct approach.

> I don't use it for anything production -- I find running multiples of the 
> various Postfix daemons chained together how I need to be sufficient for 
> what I need to do -- but there is developmental support for Sendmail 8 
> milters that'll ship in Postfix 2.3 if you want to use them....

I'll wait a bit for that...  ;-)

-Jim P.





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