mailscanner 4.2x and postfix 2.0.14 do play well together

[Julian Field]

At 10:57 28/08/2003, you wrote:
>Hello all...
>
> >Has anyone else tried postfix 2.0.14 with the latest mailscanner?
>
>I've running a version of Postfix 2 (admittedly < than 0.14, though) using
>'hold' and a single queue, and things seem to be working fine and dandy.
>
>I'm a bit perturbed by Wietse's and Julian's comments, though. Wietse has
>always had a very one-sided view of how things should be done in Postfix
>(any external programme should talk SMTP, so even though he's just added a
>type of 'proxy' function to Postfix 2, the thing it connects to still
>needs to talk SMTP ... Julian has of course, and quite sensibly stated
>that he doesn't want to write a new SMTP daemon and reinvent the wheel.
>
>As to Julian's comments, well, maybe I should have learnt Exim then when I
>was making the decision to switch from Amavis to MailScanner ;) ... I just
>happened to know Postfix at the time!

If Postfix is giving you good enough performance, then go with it. If you
need to extract every last shred of speed from a server, go for something
else.
--
Julian Field
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