On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Ned Freed wrote: > > > The sendmail way has the advantage of being more efficient if you have > > slow clients and/or heavy milter processes. > > How does that follow? The only difference is that in one case you're feeding > it > the data as it comes in while in the other you're buffering up the data and > sending it as soon as the end of the message is received. Either way the > milter > is running throughout the message transfer, unless you're willing to hold off > on even starting the milter until after the message transfer, in which > case it can't do things like refuse specific recipients. > > Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought sendmail starts milters at session startup.
Er, sorry, I was thinking about data-only filters rather than the rest of the milter functionality. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.
