MTA preferences for use with MailScanner

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:38:57AM -0300, Mariano Absatz wrote:
> I heard, from knowledgable people, that both Postfix and Exim are
> nice, easy to configure and have good documentation and mailing list
> support... the only thing that I disliked was when Julian said that
> the queue format of Postfix is binary and not plain ASCII... this
> scares me a lot since, in a crisis, you aren't able to use your
> average set of text tools to resolve it...

Is this really true? I know postfix queuefiles don't have linebreaks in
them, but does that make them binary?

Anyway, postfix comes with the postcat utility which takes a queuefile
and prints it to standard out nicely formatted with line breaks. So, you
can do whatever standard text manipulations on it you desire. The
postdrop utility is also useful for dealing with queuefiles.

-Eric Rz

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