Andre Nathan:
> On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:11 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > That would be a mistake.
>
> Understood. You are correct, of course.
>
> Would you consider then the possibility of adding a tag to the message
> metadata in the queue?
>
> The idea is that different smtpd instances could tag the messages they
> add to the queue with some user-configurable string, which would then be
> exposed by the scheduler protocol. An SRS application could then inspect
> the tag value and use it as one of the factors to decide if it will
> munge the sender address or not.
>
> The motivation behind the tag is to avoid the need for a lookup on the
> sender address (which could even be in a different data store than the
> redirect database).
How is this supposed to work with external content filters, such
as before-queue filters (smtpd_proxy) or post-queue filters
(amavisd-new over SMTP, and pipe(8)->filter->sendmail(1) over UNIX
pipes)?
Wietse
