[Esd-l] Alternatives to Sanitizer

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Graham Dunn wrote:

> Mimedefang itself is a very basic filtering tool, but provides a
> very powerful framework to plug things like spammassassin / Anomy
> into it (has there ever been any work on getting the sanitizer
> into the mimedefang framework?).

No, there hasn't.
 
> Plusses:
> 
> o	runs as a milter, so multiple sendmails per message (in
> gateway configuration) is avoided, lowering overhead.

That's a pretty big plus.

> Minuses:
> 
> o     runs as a milter, so sendmail only (if you're not a sendmail
> shop).

That's a pretty big minus. I like being MTA-agnostic. I also like the
configuration flexibility that procmail provides.

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