Major features?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 14:24:11 +0000
> From: Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Major features?
>
> 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?

If you are aiming this at pointy-haired bosses, good point.  They
think buying from Microsloth is better.  They get what they deserve.

>
>> 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?

How about "no rework of your existing MTA configuration files needed
to use MailScanner".  Save the techie details for the webpage.

Jeff

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