> On the flip side, that 5% of things that Sendmail can do that Postfix > can't, can be *really* nice. Postfix does not have Sendmail's milter > interface. What the Milter interface allows you to do, is reject > messages on the fly, as part of the SMTP session, for what > ever reason > you see fit. Spam, Viruses, Malformed messages, what ever -- > you don't > generate NDRs, you just say "No Thanks" and stop talking to > the sending > host. Postfix does not have an elegant way to implement > this. You can > sit a spam/virus daemon in front of your MTA that's capable > of doing it, > but that's not an elegant solution. For most low volume sites this > isn't really a problem, but for larger volume sites it can be a real > headache as queue sizes grow unmanageable. >
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