Re: SMTP server mode

From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah_at_zimbra.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:03:22 -0700

--On Friday, August 17, 2012 11:56 PM +0200 Andreas Schulze
<sca_at_andreasschulze.de> wrote:

>> Ok, "temp fail". Which to the client means their mail is REJECTED and
>> not accepted for delivery. Same difference. Either way, it does not
>> end up queued until the milter is back in service.
>
> Ahh, the feature you like is http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html
> That's not my way. Thats why I did not noticed that.
>
> After Queue Filtering is good for accepting all spam and give most users
> best chance to become a source of backscatter.
>
> You may setup a 2. smtp server at localhost:anyhighport using a milter.
> Then configure your primary smtp server to forward all incoming mail to
> that 2. smtp server.
>
> That will solve your main problem.
>
> master.cf:
> -----
> smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
> -o content_filter=127.0.0.1:12345
>
> 127.0.0.1:12345 inet n - n - - smtpd
> -o smtpd_milters=${opendkim_milter}
> -----
>
> now, if the milter fail, the mail still stay in a queue at *your* server.

Sweet, thanks! Then I think we can kill the (E)SMTP opendkim request. ;)

--Quanah

--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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