Postfix and Mailscanner sitting in a tree k-iss-ing

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi
The 'problem' from the PS community is the way MS drags messages from
one place to another without using the proper PS way of doing things.

Every other MTA is quite happy for this to happen, and PS in practice
doesn't seem to object. Its just the developers that get upset as it
breaks one otf their design rules.

Lots of people use the two in combination with no problems.

You do have to keep up to date with MS if you upgrade PS as the PS
developers tend to change things that MS relies upon. Julian is normally
pretty quick at getting a fix out, but its just something to watch out for..


(no I'm not at work, just checking out a few things from home :-)
--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


avery wrote:
> Volume: 500 messages/day
> MTA: Postfix 2.X
> Hardware: 1 X Pentium IV, 2.6Ghz, 1.0 Gig RAM, 2x SATA Raid 1
> Operating System: RHEL 3.0
> RBLs: 1 in MTA
> Virus Scanners: ClamAV (clamav-0.80-2.1.el3.rf)
> Mailscanner Version: mailscanner-4.36.4-1
> Domains: 5
> Spamassassin: Not being used
>
> First let me say how impressed I am with Mailscanner. I have been using
> it in a production enviorment for the last 4 weeks. I have only ever
> just played with it in the past.
>
> I am about to start adding more domains to my email server and have some
> concerns. I have read a lot of negativity about Mailscanner and postfix
> being used together in the postfix community and else where. We all know
> this story so I don't need to go any farther. I have searched the
> Mailscanner archives for any opinions from the Mailscanner experts
> within the last 4 months, and have found very little information. I have
> noticed however that the suggested way of setting up Mailscanner to work
> with postfix has changed
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml so I
> figured anything before the change was irrelevant. Hence the 4 month
> limitation on the search. My question is this: has the way in which
> Mailscanner is now being setup with postfix changed the integrity of
> things? Has the overall outlook of Mailscanner when being used with
> postfix improved at all in the postfix community?
>
> I personally have not experienced any real serous problems yet. I have
> however had some email sit in the queue for 10+ min. Before getting
> delivered. One other time I needed to restart the Mailscanner service
> because all mail was getting queued up and not getting delivered. After
> restarting the service everything worked. I know this has something to
> do with Mailscanner because before I integrated Mailscanner into this
> server I never had this problem.
>
> Pardon me for asking this question, but it seems that for the most part,
> the Mailscanner community doesn't seem to see a real problem in which
> the way Mailscanner works with postfix. On the other hand the Postfix
> community does. Is this more personal than anything, or is there
> actually some legitimacy behind it all?
>
> Thanks,
> Schrock
>
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