On 07/17/2009 05:30 AM, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: >> * 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. >> > "screener", then. > Oh, wait ... > > > but then, there is also "anvil" > > J.L. >
"Anvil" is a name I always liked for a Postfix daemon, and I was also thinking that building on that theme would be a good idea. However, I'm not clever enough to come up with an example. "Vise" was all that I could come up with. -Mike
