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

[Julian Field]

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avery wrote:

> Drew Marshall wrote:
>
>> 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,
>
> I agree completely that Mailscanner is a awesome piece of software, so
> is postfix though.
>
> Maybe this isn't my place to say this, but at least this sort of
> information should be on the Mailscanner website. The strength of
> GNU/GPL/OpenSource communities is all of the great information you can
> get that the proprietary world lacks so much of. Why not just openly
> state that the postfix community does not agree with how Mailscanner
> works with postfix and that Mailscanner has tried to accommodate the
> postfix community. No politics no bull just the facts. Then people like
> me are more educated on the subject and less people would be bothering
> the Mailscanner experts on the mailing list : ) . Sometime exposting the
> facts kills off the politics and drama.
>
> A lot of people like me are struggling to keep open source products a
> part of the IT infrastructure we work in. We sometimes have difficulty
> getting the facts, and a lot of people are getting scared away from
> Mailscanner because of this. I am not proposing changing anything, I am
> just saying lets expose the facts.

It would be great if you could add this to the FAQ on the website. It's
not a wiki but works very like one. Thanks!

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