Quanah Gibson-Mount:
> We've some features (such as DKIM signing) we'd like to deploy, but
> currently the only program that meets our requirements is OpenDKIM, which
> is available as a before-queue milter. However, we've a concern about
> using such milters, specifically, if the milter is broken or times out lots
> of email gets rejected because resources get consumed and never freed. An
> example may be a milter that relies on LDAP, and the LDAP server goes down.
>
> I noticed in the release notes that Postfix 2.7 receives the full message
> before sending it to the before-queue milter, but I don't think this
> addresses the concern.
Milter applications see SMTP commands as they happen.
Wietse
> I wanted to verify with the list that this concern is valid, and what sort
> of mitigation strategies folks may have used.
>
> Thanks,
> Quanah
>
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> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
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