On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:55:49AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Ben Rosengart:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:27:11PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > >
> > > 2. I never liked milters (multi-threading complexity, and poor
> > > degradation
> > > when CPU is scarce under high load).
> >
> > If you strip away the API layer, it's a client/server protocol over a
> > socket, not so different from the policy service, but more capable and
> > more compatible.
>
> Major difference: one multi-threaded milter process versus multiple
> single-threaded policy daemons. Make your pick as for scalibility
> and ease of programming.
I must be missing something. What is to stop me from handling the
server side of the milter protocol with whatever architecture I please?
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