[plug] MIMEdefang and postfix?

[Bernd Felsche]

Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> writes:

>On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 10:10 +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
>> I've been asked to strip out undesirable attachments from
>> emails at one site. MIMEdefang looks like it'd do the job, but its
>> documentation says "sendmail required".
>> 
>> Will it work with postfix?

>No. It uses the milter interface of Sendmail, and thus absolutely
>requires Sendmail.

>When I migrated work off Sendmail to Postfix, I started using 
>amavisd-new and I've been fairly happy with that. With Postfix you don't
>have to use it as an outward-facing SMTP proxy, Postfix supports using
>it as a content filter over LMTP.

>Amavisd-new seems a *lot* more efficient than MimeDefang, too.

Thanks; I'll have a look at amavisd-new... not too sure what the
-new means as yet! :-)
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