Darren Pilgrim:
> I'm testing a filter that's available as both a milter and as a
> postfix-style policy daemon listening on a unix socket. Either way, the
> functionality of the filter is identical. Which approach is better?
> Milter or unix socket? In this case, better is actually two separate
> criteria: performance under load and long-term cost of configuration.
> If I slam the server with 5000 requests all at once, which approach will
> chew the load faster? If I set it up I'd like it to not break over a
> year's worth of keeping postfix current. I know the policy daemon
> socket interface is pretty stable, but what about the milter interface?
The policy daemon protocol is simpler, because it is meant to do
less. Therefore, if the same program speaks both, then I don't
expect differences apart from implementation bugs.
Wietse
