Major features?

[Julian Field]

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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
> The two features that I think are most important:
>
> 1) Open source, uses Perl, which is open source.

 From a corporate point of view, I am actually reluctant to include this
in a major feature list. I would rather they discovered this by
accident. Thoughts?

> 2) MailScanner stands BEHIND the MTA, not in front of it.  Your
> normal MTA gets to listen to port 25, not MailScanner.  So you don't
> have to do a major redo of your sendmail.cf file to use MailScanner.
> You program does not attempt to mimic an MTA, unlike other things
> (MailMonitor at Sophos comes to mind).

This sounds too technical for a flyer, but I would like to include
something like it. Suggestions on the wording of this one?

> The importance of not having to do a major rework of the sendmail.cf
> (or have it listen to port 25) just to use MailScanner cannot be
> overemphasized.  It enables quick and easy installation of the code.
>
> Your insight of having two copies of the MTA, with MailScanner between
> them, was brilliant.

Aw, shucks. Thanks. Occurred to me at lunch over a sandwich.

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