From: mouss (mlist.onlyfree.fr)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2007 - 06:14:16 CDT

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm reading the chapter 11 "How External Content Filters Work" of
> Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter's Postfix book.
>
> In main.cf, the book tells to use ``content_filter'' like this:
> % content_filter = foo:[127.0.0.1]:54321
>
> Later on the "foo" transport is defined in master.cf:
> % foo unix - - n - 2 smtp
> ^^^^
> % -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200s
> % -o disable_dns_lookups=yes
> % ...
>
> As far as I understand master(5) manual page, the service "foo" is
> defined to listen on a UNIX socket but main.cf gives an inet address.
>
> What am I missing here?
>

foo is the transport that will talk to the content filter. It is not the
content filter.

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]