Postfix, mailwatch and queue IDs (and of course mailscanner:-)

[Steen, Glenn]

:-) Martin,

Well I fancied the elegant design, easy configuration, security (qmail
(which was the secure alternative to sendmail back when... I sort of
fell in love with Postfix) never appealed to me... Too much PC cr*p:)
and non-monolithic nature of Postfix.

I don't think I'll switch MTA/Scanner just because of this (too set in
my ways... Don't try to teach an old dog to sit, and all that:-)... I'll
probably try and see if "smarter/dumber partitioning" helps enough to
make it bearable... At least as a first step.

Thanks for the input though.

-- Glenn

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Sent: den 18 november 2004 18:03
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Subject: Re: Postfix, mailwatch and queue IDs (and of course
mailscanner:-)


Glenn
move to another MTA that doesn't exhibit this 'feature' :-) Exim's
nice....depends on why you use Postfix anyhow..

Not much love lost by the Postfix guys for the MS way of doing things, I
doubt they'd fix this for a product they don't 'support' anyway.



--
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Steen, Glenn wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> I gather from the gigantic shrug I'm getting here (how else to
interpret
> ... silence:-) that noone has a good handle on how to "improve" the
> situation regarding duplicates in sql-logs (and possible quarantine
> corruption) when using some such log feature with MS, due to postfix
> reusing queue IDs (the quarantine is in danger when using systems like
> MailWatch, which will not preserve the queue file inode (number)...
> Sure, it's a slim window, but it could happen).
>
> One could of course try to "work around" this in the "logging
subsytem"
> (MailWatch in my case), but.. I dunno, it feels like it's better to do
> closer to the source:-).
>
> Why not ask the postfix people to "fix it"? Well, I'm guessing one
will
> get even less response (if that's possible:-) from then, and then
> probably just a pointer to amavisd-new.
>
> Sure, for MailScanner it's not a central problem, but... Well, my PHB
> likes what he can see in MW (that's what sold him on MS...:), and when
> he starts to see the duplicates on a more ... regular basis... Suffice
> it to say that it gets to be my problem then:-).
>
> Or has this been discussed in depth already? I couldn't find mention
of
> it in the list archive...
>
> Any feedback would be welcome.
>


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