On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 16:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
for a couple of years now:
http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2006/08/postfix-supports-milter/
Supporting the milter interface and actually running existing milters that expect sendmail on the other side are two different things. For example, milters may need to know if the connection is authenticated or using SSL. If you are going to claim sendmail compatibility or be a functional replacement you have to provide the same information, the same way whether it was described in the interface documentation or not. Postfix pre-2.4 didn't. It looks like it does now, but I still don't remember any mentions of people actually using it on the MimeDefang list.
So? We aren't talking about auto migrating people's existing sendmail deployments, which would require a higher level of compatibility. We are just talking about changing the default, to one which the majority of users are likely to prefer (I appreciate that you have a different preference, but even you must realize you are in a minority).
And in any case, using MimeDefang as a sendmail milter eliminates most of the complaints anyone would have with sendmail itself since it lets you do the complex parts with control handled in perl instead of sendmail's internal language.
Again, that would be your opinion ... and it is different to mine.