Major features?

[Kevin Miller]

Julian Field wrote:
> 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?

I agree - might mention that the source code is available/included for
customization, but I'd steer clear of politically charged buzz words.  That
despite that fact that I think the "open source" phenomana is the best thing
since bottled beer.


>> 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?

"Minimal reconfiguration of your MTA" perhaps?

>> 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.

What kind of sandwich?  I'm short on brilliant insights lately and could use
the help! <g>

...Kevin
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