On April 29, 2018 11:11:18 PM EDT, Linda Walsh <sa-u...@tlinx.org> wrote:

>       Except users who have their own rules are not likely
>doing it in the context of the initial choice of whether or
>not to accept the email onto the server.

They do in our system.
 
>       I.e. it "should" never be the case that user-defined
>filters are run in the MTA's initial receive context as the MTA
>just received (or is in process of receiving) an email coming
>in on a privileged port (like port 25) which would imply a
>privileged context (most likely root).

No; see the milter API and library.

>       Delays are not the same as dropped email.

I have seen sending MTAs give up after an absurdly small number of retries.

Regards,

Dianne.

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