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

[Drew Marshall]

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Drew,

>
> Awesome, Awesome, Awesome, thank you. I needed that information badly
> and so do others. I am making a proposal to expose this information. I
> just wanted someone to specifically state the reasons why things have
> changed. If more postfix users knew this they might not be so afraid of
> using Mailscanner with postfix. The postfix community is still telling
> people not to use Mailscanner with postfix even though it seems a
> solution has been found. As of right this second the postfix experts on
> the postfix mailing list are telling people that it is not safe to use
> postfix and Mailscanner together.

As you have researched, Julian Field (I *can* spell that one!) and the
Postfix development team don't see eye to eye (To put it mildly). The
attitude from the Postfix end is do it our way or not at all, which is
sad and not totally in the spirit of open source (IMHO), after all what
difference is MS moving messages to the queue runner moving messages?
Anyway I'm not going to stand on that soap box :-) . I love MailScanner
as it's well documented, easy to configure and does loads of clever
stuff without me needing to know too much and it's always evolving and
developing. Ironically, I love Postfix for the same reasons and it's
pretty quick too! Fortunately there is a neat way to make the two work
together. One last point. If you ever want to 'hold' a message you can't
use Postfix to do so (As that is the MS interface) however MailScanner
comes with great quarantine features which you can set up via rule sets
which are much simpler than the regex required to make Postfix's content
or header specific system work, just in case that one should surface as
an argument... :-)

Drew

Happy to help

Drew

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