On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:51:35AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> I agree there is a need for it, but I am not sure that building it
> directly into the heart of Postfix is the right place for it.

You're probably right. In my opinion, feature-creep is one thing that
has made Sendmail such a beast to work with.

> (On the contrary, I believe what might be best in the long term is to
> provide hooks to allow Postfix to interface to an separate
> content-filtering system at the phase where header and body checks are
> now performed.)

Hooks are good...especially if the API is simple. That way people could
write their own filters, ranging from a simple Perl script to a complex
program with a database backend.

> For now the SMTP-proxy interface to an external content filter is
> probably the best bet for doing more elaborate tests.

I'll take a look at that.

Regards,
Michael

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