On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:22:27PM -0500, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
| I've been lurking on this list for a while and couldn't resist piping
| in on this topic. I've been playing with the socket map lately. I've
| patched sendmail 8.12.11 with it and I've been trying to integrate it
| with virtual domains in cyrus-imapd. The newest cyrus-imapd has a
| bundled socket map daemon. I'm having some issues, but it's mostly due
| to my rusty ruleset writing skills and the lack of good m4 files already
| written to integrated it well with cyrus.
| I just want to echo that, from what I've seen, yes, there are many
| possibilities for this new socket map. It's a *much* simpler interface
| than the milter interface. Although it might not be as flexible as
| milter it can serve many purposes for which a milter might be considered
| overkill. It appears to be a lightweight protocol suitable for high
| volume queries. And, of course, you can put anything you want on the
| backend as long as your server speaks the simple socket map protocol.
I would love to see an spfd that does the socket map protocol. Anyone
know more about this?