Few general questions regarding MailScanner

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Mar 6 11:24:25 GMT 2004


At 00:06 06/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I appreciate the replies. I'm trying to make a decision now on what I want
>to use.
>
>>Drawbacks:
>>         Mailscanner - double queuing means extra disk IO.

Not true. With sendmail and Exim the message body files are moved between
the queues using hard links and are not actually copied at all. No extra
disk IO.

>>Both tools are quite versatile and flexible and most things that one can do
>>the other can do just as well.
>>
>>Mimedefang's configuration is literally done with a fragment of perl code.
>>This means you're limited pretty much only by your perl coding ability.
>
>I understand that. If someone is not well versed in Perl, you could be
>'lacking' in your ability to take full advantage of MIMEDefang. On the
>other hand, it could be incentive to learn Perl better. :)

In MailScanner, you only have to resort to writing any code if the ruleset
system cannot already do exactly what you need. And hardly anyone has found
a need to do this.

>>MailScanner's configuration is limited to the options in the
>>MailScanner.conf. This makes the syntax much simpler, particularly if you
>>don't already know perl. There's methods of making most options into "rule
>>lists" of various sorts, but it's not quite as flexible as writing in perl
>>code.
>
>I installed Mailscanner and found all of the files that you can edit. There
>are indeed a lot of options. Options are good.

But you can arbitrarily complex rulesets for each option. And if a ruleset
can't do what you want, you can just write a simple little "Custom
Function" in Perl to calculate the value of the option for each message.

So that's not actually true either.
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