[OmniOS-discuss] Bloody // mailwrapper & mta mediator

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Paul B. Henson wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 07:56:15AM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote:
>> Does the *presence* of sendmail in a default install actually prevent
>> folks from using their preferred MTAs with the mediator (which still
>> works from what I can tell)?
>
> I haven't had a chance to try out 016; I think other than being
> unnecessary bloat and requiring actions to be taken to disable it
> sendmail won't get in the way of another MTA.

I think that Paul would not be very happy if he did not have a Milter 
library.  The Milter library is popular with postfix users becauses it 
supports filtering inbound mail prior to delivery (e.g. for 
greylisting).  Currently libmilter seems to be supplied by the 
sendmail package.

It would be useful if the milter library was broken out from the 
sendmail package.  It would also be useful if there was 64-bit 
sendmail and 64-bit milter library because otherwise there can be 
problems with hitting the 256 file descriptor limit under heavy email 
conditions.

Bob
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