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

[Drew Marshall]

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avery wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> 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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>
> Julian,
>
> Thanks you for the info Mr. FAQ Administrator. Consider it done.
>
> Schrock

Ok beat me to it! I'll leave to you Schrock. Feel free to mail me off
list if you need any help or more detail.

Drew

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