On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:40:05AM -0700, Gary Smith wrote: > My question is will this fork process cause any problems with postfix > itself? I just don't know what the impact of a fork in the content_filter > will be.
Just make sure to close stdout and stderr, to avoid writing garbage into the pipe between Postfix and the filter, used to collect filter error messages. With this level of complexity, you really should use the advanced (SMTP) filter approach not pipe(8) based filters. -- Viktor. P.S. Morgan Stanley is looking for a New York City based, Senior Unix system/email administrator to architect and sustain our perimeter email environment. If you are interested, please drop me a note.