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Date: Mon Sep 03 2007 - 15:25:36 CDT

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> Datum: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:58:15 -0700
> Von: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfgmonkeys.com>
> An: postfix-userspostfix.org
> Betreff: Re: A question about Milters and Thread Safety

>
> In message <20070903193047.4AF311F3EA1spike.porcupine.org>,
> wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote:
>
> >Ronald F. Guilmette:
> >> Just for the sake of my edification, could you please also tell me
> >> _why_ a Postfix milter has to be thread safe?
> >
> >There is no such thing as a Postfix Milter.
> >
> >Your milter application runs on top of libmilter.
>
> Well, that sort-of begs the question... What if it _didn't_ run on
> top of libmilter? What if it skipped that and tried to interface
> to Postfix smtpd directly? Would my milter still have to be
> thread-safe under that scenario?
>
> (Please forgive me for making such an issue of this, but it really
> would be a major pain in the ass to make what I have in mind thread-
> safe. A significant part of the problem with doing that... but
> certainly not the only problem... is that the spam filter that I'd
> like to turn into a milter does DNS lookups.
>
What spam filter is that?

> Sadly, I am not aware
> of any thread-safe DNS primitives library, so I kind-of think that
> I'd be stuck trying to write my own, from scratch. Am I just looking
> in the Wrong Places? Does anybody here happen to know of a reasonably
> priced thread-safe DNS primitives library?)
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg

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