Feature request: native qmail support

Dhawal Doshy dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com
Thu Apr 13 14:44:19 IST 2006


Hi Julian,

I've been using MS for about 18 months and am quite happy with it.. i've 
also used openprotect (on a different set of servers) and it is working 
reasonably well (though not as i would like it to).

My request: Native qmail support for the following reasons
1. openprotect announces itself as a complete package, i'd rather do the 
packaging myself and pick and choose other components that i'd like to use.
2. openprotect is quite a few releases behind, i'd prefer upgrading to 
the latest available stable release from mailscanner.info
3. openprotect changes some fundamental things, like the mailscanner 
startup script.. i wouldn't like that.

Some changes that'll be required:
a. Qmail.pm is not up to date, can this be updated from openprotect sources.
b. Same for QMDiskStore.pm
c. ConfigDefs.pl doesn't have the necessary definitions for qmail
d. /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner doesn't have the qmail related parameters.

Finally it'd be great if you can add some postfix like queue-id support 
(queue-id.random_number) to qmail as well.

If you think this is doable, i can send you the necessary files/diffs 
from the latest version of openprotect.

Thanks in advance..
- dhawal


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