What is the architecture of MIMEDefang?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 20:20
The MIMEDefang system consists of three main programs:
- mimedefang is a C "Milter" program. It talks directly to Sendmail using the multi-threaded Milter library.
- mimedefang-multiplexor is a C program that accepts requests from mimedefang and forwards them to one of a pool of slave Perl processes.
- mimedefang.pl is a Perl program that does the actual mail filtering. The multiplexor manages a pool of these processes, forwarding idle processes work and reading the results.
A complete description of the architecture may be found in the PDF presentation slides.
