Re: SMTP server mode

From: Patrick Ben Koetter <p_at_state-of-mind.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:11:16 +0200

* Andreas Schulze <sca_at_andreasschulze.de>:
> > 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.

Which, of course, is illegal in Germany and that's why you need to run pre
queue filters in Germany only. A product that doesn't follow that path will
have it hard on the German market.

p_at_rick

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