MailScanner ANNOUNCE 4.37.2

[Steen, Glenn]

Hm, looking at the latest (4.37.3) ... Nice Julian.
I might have spoken to soon about the preservation of inodes (below)
though... It's a copy into the quarantine, regardless, right?

-- Glenn (not really friendly with the code yet, but getting there:-)

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> Sent: den 15 december 2004 11:07
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE 4.37.2
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Wilcock [mailto:john at tradoc.fr] 
> > Sent: den 14 december 2004 16:22
> > To: Steen, Glenn
> > Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE 4.37.2
> > 
> > 
> > Steen, Glenn wrote:
> > > Well John, that wouldn't really matter for MW, since 
> you'd never set
> > > it to store the queue files... 
> > 
> > Yes, I realise that. I was just pointing out a potential 
> bug that may 
> > affect non-MW users.
> True John, and I in turn just point to it just being a problem in the
> spam quarantine, for two reasons: 1) The directory of the virus
> quarantine
> keep the "id.5-randoms" bit, and 2) Since you keep the queue file (and
> thus
> the inode, unless one has done something foolish (like have 
> the postfix
> spool
> and the quarantine on separate filesystems)) you run no risk 
> of reusing
> that
> particular id.
> I realize I could have been more clear on this:-)
> 
> So... the problem is either a cosmetic one in the quarantines, or a
> "will never
> be setup that way" for MW.
> 
> I see Julian has released a new beta, so I'll be looking at that ASAP.
> 
> -- Glenn
> 
> > 
> > John.
> > 
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