Postfix support.

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 12 14:12:23 IST 2002


MailScanner version 4 is a whole lot more OO than any previous release.
Once I've got the code working pretty well, you are welcome to a copy to
work on Postfix support.

At 12:38 12/09/2002, you wrote:
>On Thursday 12 September 2002 11.18, Marc Perea wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Julian, is there any chance of having MailScanner working with Postfix at
> > sight ?
> > I mean having it working directly, not proxied like the FAQ tip.
> >
> > Maybe in a future release ? Maybe an unnofficial patch or another branch
> > dedicated only to postfix (and/or another MTAs) ?
>
>I wrote Postfix support for MailScanner as of 2002-06-01 (or around that
>date). Julian considered it too many changes (I also made all message
>handling object oriented to avoid passing around all those hashes) and would
>not merge my code into MailScanner.
>
>We saw no other option than to fork the development. You can see the results
>at http://devel.it.su.se/cgi-bin/local/cvsweb.cgi/SU-MailScanner/
>(instructions on how to access the CVS anonymously can be found at
>http://devel.it.su.se/cvs.html).
>
>We would like to invite anyone interested to come and help with the
>development, but everyone should know that this is NOT a MailScanner which
>you can send questions about to this mailinglist. This mailinglist is for the
>original MailScanner. If interest is high enough, we will set up another
>mailing list for discussions about SU-MailScanner.
>
>/Fredrik

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