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Solving E-mail Problems Using sendmail "Milters"

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A Milter is a multi-threaded email-filtering program. Milters run in parallel to sendmail, and can review every aspect of every email message. Multiple Milters can run in parallel, each dealing with a different aspect of email. Milters can be shared among several sendmail processes, even sendmail processes located on separate machines, even when those machines are in separate towns or countries. In this way, spam/virus suppression can be central to a mail server and, at the same time, available to its MX backup servers.

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