On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:27:11PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>
> 2. I never liked milters (multi-threading complexity, and poor degradation
> when CPU is scarce under high load).
If you strip away the API layer, it's a client/server protocol over a
socket, not so different from the policy service, but more capable and
more compatible.
I have implemented single-threaded multiplexing for Perl in
Sendmail::PMilter, and I'm working on getting the patches into CPAN,
for what it's worth. Our floodstopper code runs on this platform
essentially unchanged.
> It is not difficult to integrate the queue-file parser from the
> updated qshape(1) into your (my) code derived from milter versions
> of qshape. Good luck.
Thanks, that's very helpful, as is Wietse's suggestion of "postcat -h".
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