Config File Idea

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 17 21:27:24 GMT 2003


At 21:16 17/03/2003, you wrote:
>Sorry, I was thinking "reload" and wrote "restart".
>Actually, I'm thinking about an environment where you are running from
>apache and don't want to have to "reload" MailScanner when a change
>happens either because you haven't got sudo permissions setup, etc. or
>apache won't allow you to run a suid/guid program with a uid/gid < 500.

In that case I would just make the "Restart Every" time nice and short, say
10 minutes or so. Minimal overhead.

>I'm not asking for you to make it, I was just seeing if anyone else
>wanted something that would be more for an end user (say an ISP client
>like yahoo, etc.) to enable spam, virus checks, add some
>whitelist/blacklist entries but not actually to administer MailScanner
>overall like the Webmin module already tries to.

It would be really useful if you fancy writing one, and I'm sure it would
be appreciated by other users on this list.
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Julian Field
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