On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 01:53:39PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Viktor Dukhovni:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 09:19:11AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> > > Below is the order of how Postfix receives email. Steps with "*"
> > > are logged with -v or with -v -v, other steps are logged only when
> > > they fail.
> > >
> > > * repeat: receive header and send header to milter
> > >
> > > * send 'end of headers' to milter
> > >
> > > receive body
> >
> > I was under the impression (not yet backed by code inspection) that
> > milter content processing does not begin until the message body is
> > received in its entirety. And I'd na?vely expect the second milter
> > (...) to only see the headers/body after the previous milter is done
> > processing both.
>
> Correct. First the entire message is received. Then the MIME processor
> walks over file and sends headers or body chunks to the 'current'
> milter. Then repeat the previous sentence for the next milter.
So in that case, "smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions" actions would I think
run *before* milter header/body processing...
--
Viktor.
