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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:34:33 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Proper way to add 3rd party milters?
Message-ID:  <20050323163433.GB19890@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050323151910.GT86465@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20050323151910.GT86465@seekingfire.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 23), Tillman Hodgson said:
> I'm looking at some milters that would be very useful to my mail
> architecture (milter-ahead is one I'm looking at deploying very
> soon).
> 
> What's the best way to add 3rd-party milters so that it's still
> maintainable? I'm thinking of writing a port around it (using
> mail/rbl-milter) because I could then use the ports infrastructure to
> upgrade. Does this method work well when using milters with the
> sendmail in the base OS? What are other folks doing to solve this
> sort of problem?

There shouldn't be any issues at all.  Just install the milter, create
an rc script to start it up, and print a message asking the user to add
the appropriate INPUT_MAIL_FILTER macro to their .mc file. 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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