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Wiktionary

  1. milternoun

    A male fish during breeding season.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Milternoun

    The he of any fish, the she being called spawner.

    Etymology: from milt.

    The spawner and milter labour to cover their spawn with sand. Izaak Walton, Angler.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Milternoun

    a male fish

  2. Etymology: [Cf. D. milter, G. milcher, milchner. See 2d Milt.]

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  1. Milter

    Milter is an extension to the widely used open source mail transfer agents Sendmail and Postfix. It allows administrators to add mail filters for filtering spam or viruses very efficiently in the mail-processing chain. In the language of the art, "milter" refers to the protocol and API implementing the service, while "a milter" has come to refer to a filter application that uses milter to provide service. Prior to the advent of milter, an email filter was generally implemented as a program to which an MTA would hand the message once it has completely arrived, with most of the message's envelope information removed. That program could then analyze the header and body of the message and make a decision to accept the message or reject it. The MTA would then log a successful delivery or return a failure message to the sender as appropriate, and the filter would be responsible for effecting delivery of the message. An MTA that is milter-capable instead notifies filters to which it is connected about each phase of the delivery of a message, from initial client connection through completion of transmission. At each phase of the SMTP session, the filter is given data about the arriving message and then has an opportunity to terminate acceptance of the message early when appropriate. For very large messages, this can have an enormous impact when a decision to reject can be made as early as possible. Moreover, unlike the former model, a milter-capable MTA can connect to multiple filters in parallel that serve specific purposes such as anti-virus, anti-spam, message authentication, flow regulation, etc. Finally, such filters can take special action on the message: add or remove recipients in the envelope; alter the body prior to delivery; add, change or remove header fields in the message, etc.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MILTER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Milter is ranked #149395 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Milter surname appeared 110 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Milter.

    93.6% or 103 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of milter in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of milter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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