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

[Julian Field]

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At this rate I might as well publish a book entitled something along the
lines of "Jules' writings on all things MailScanner". I imagine it would
be a cross between similar volumes by Chairman Mao and Tim O'Reilly.
:-)

Julian Field wrote:

> MailScanner is built on the basis that what it does is take messages
> from one queue, clean them up, and put them in another queue. That's the
> fundamental design of MailScanner, and it's a very simple one. That's
> the way it is.
>
> In Postfix's case, the "sanctioned interfaces" don't provide for any way
> of implementing MailScanner's design, without changing the whole way
> MailScanner works. Which I am not prepared to do. Quite reasonably, I
> think. Wietse thought up a way for programs to interface with Postfix,
> and stamps his feet saying that everyone must use the method *he*
> thought of. He didn't think of anyone doing it the way I did, so he says
> I'm wrong.
>
> It's an odd area of engineering where a novel design is wrong just
> because someone else didn't think of it first.
>
> Yes, it is a technical problem. But not one I can/will solve the way
> Wietse wants me to.


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