From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2006 - 17:58:35 CST

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Ronald F. Guilmette:
>
> In message <20061201224103.6A156BC0A1spike.porcupine.org>,
> Wietse wrote:
>
> >I suggest that you have a look at the MILTER_README document. The
> >Milter protocol gives access to SMTP commands, headers and body.
> >I added it to Postfix so I would not have to provide my own
> >domainkeys/dkim/etc. plugins. Writing a Milter application is not
> >entirely trivial.
>
> Yes. I noticed that.
>
> And it appeared to me that milter invocation might not be all that
> efficient either... the whole darn message has to be passed around,
> between agents, multiple times.

Milter does not require copying the entire message. For example,
the senderid plugin does not ask for themessage body, and thus
it is never sent across.

        Wietse

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