On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Wietse Venema wrote:
Dan Mahoney (Gushi):
Postifix has a concept of quarantine. It is called the HOLD queue.
As of 2006, when the Milter says QUARANTINE, then Postfix will
quarantine the message, i.e. place it in the HOLD queue, for admins
to deal with manually.
Yes, and I am asking if there is a postfix knob that says "I know what the
milter says, but I want something different, because postfix doesn't know
about what will handle that message downstream of postfix
(procmail/spamassassin/imapfilter/etc).
I mean, maybe such a knob should exist if it doesn't, but this is also to
improve OpenDMARC's docs so mail admins aren't suddenly surprised at this
new action that's been off their radar for years.
Someone decided to change the meaning of Milter protcol responses
that were defined 15+ years ago, with a huge installed base of
code that faithfully implements those responses, and they forgot
to tell the people who implement the software that receives those
responses.
That would be an unilateral protocol change.
Why not prepend a header (like Milters already do) and let Spamassassin
etc. trigger on that label.
Let me try this a second time.
Fixing the milter to return success is the patch I'm currently working on
for opendmarc. Telling me "why don't you fix your milter" is already
underway. My question was/is "does a knob to override this behavior in
postfix exist?"
Either way, this is documentation that could go in both a postfix and
opendmarc doc.
The simple answer I still haven't gotten, but assume from your response,
is "no, that knob doesn't exist"*
Is that correct?
*[and possibly "and it's unlikely to ever" or "but it's worthwhile in a
future release"]
-Dan
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