Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> * Wietse Venema <[email protected]>:
>
>> Victor Duchovni:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:21:13PM -0400, Rob Foehl wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Possible substitutes include concierge or valet, or perhaps any of the
>>>> less
>>>> specific guard, sentry, sentinel, ...
>>>>
>>> I think "sentry" is short, and simple, and can even be thought of as a
>>> contraction of "smtp" and "entry". A bit less corny than "prefix" IMHO
>>> (sorry Patrick, nothing personal).
>>>
>> "sentry" is good.
>>
>> In a similar class is "triage", which I mention in the postscreen
>> manpage at http://www.postfix.org/postscreen.8.html
>>
>
> Two more names:
>
> refuse
> drop(down)
>
>
> I am very much in favor of greek or latin mythology, but I think prefix and
> both words above are more in the tradition of describing what the program does
> e.g. pickup, cleanup, tlsmgr etc. which I actually like very much about
> Postfix naming convention.
>
"screener", then.
Oh, wait ...
but then, there is also "anvil"
J.L.
