Wietse Venema schrieb: > martin f krafft: >> also sprach Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net> [2009.05.23.0037 +0200]: >>>> Why are *_checks and *_milters not end-of-data restrictions, or >>>> better yet, policy services? >>> One example: 1.2.3.4 is rejected in an access(5) table referenced >>> in smtpd_client_restrictions. Why wait for END-OF-DATA when you >>> know, in advance, that you will not accept mail from 1.2.3.4? >> I don't see the relation. If milters and content checks were >> end-of-data restrictions of policy services, there is nothing >> stopping postfix from rejecting a mail at RCPT-time if an earlier >> restriction class return failure. > > Before making architectural recommendations, it would help to step > back into the reality of how policy servers and milters work. For > one thing, policy servers don't handle message content, and for > another, Milters must be able to see every SMTP protocol step. > > Wietse
Hi Martin, after all most milters have option to whitelist hosts itself why dont use it -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
