* Wietse Venema <postfix-users@postfix.org>:
> Victor Duchovni:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:21:13PM -0400, Rob Foehl wrote:
> > 
> > > Possible substitutes include concierge or valet, or perhaps any of the 
> > > less 
> > > specific guard, sentry, sentinel, ...
> > 
> > I think "sentry" is short, and simple, and can even be thought of as a
> > contraction of "smtp" and "entry". A bit less corny than "prefix" IMHO
> > (sorry Patrick, nothing personal).
> 
> "sentry" is good. 
> 
> In a similar class is "triage", which I mention in the postscreen
> manpage at http://www.postfix.org/postscreen.8.html

Two more names:

  refuse
  drop(down)


I am very much in favor of greek or latin mythology, but I think prefix and
both words above are more in the tradition of describing what the program does
e.g.  pickup, cleanup, tlsmgr etc. which I actually like very much about
Postfix naming convention.

p...@rick



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