First of all I feel I should thank you for the very comprehensive answers you provide to this list.
> > 3. If it is a amavis limit is it going to be implemented in a future > > version? > > Not likely. > > Amavid-new in a sendmail milter setup is unable to modify mail body, > so defanging gets ignored. This is a limitation of both the old AM.CL > and well as the newer AM.PDP protocols (although the milter protocol > does support it, but not per-recipient modifications of the body nor > per-recipient modifications of the header). > > It does not seem worth the trouble of supporting mail body modifications > through milter protocol, because it would require mail to be copied back > to sendmail through milter socket. Mail rewriting is available in a > dual-sendmail setup, and it involves just as much additional mail traffic > as the milter+body modification would require - with a benefit of gaining > a more robust mail setup (decoupling number of input smtp sessions > from the number of content filters, a need for a factor of 10 is not > unusual), > and the ability of modifying header per-recipient, which milter does not > offer. > > > 4. Is defanging working in dual sendmail configurations? > > Yes, as in any dual-MTA setup, including Postfix. In view of the above, I do not see the benefit of the milter configuration. I feel that the documentation should include a statement explicitly recommending the dual MTA setup and discouraging people not to use a single sendmail configuration. The README.sendmail and README.milter files are merely a source of confusion and should perhaps be omitted altogether. Thank you, E.A>Neonakis ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
