Another call for improvements

[Julian Field]

On 30 May 2006, at 23:21, Richard Siddall wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Any of you got any features which you really need?
>> I don't guarantee to implement them, or even consider them :-)
>>
>
> Nothing I really need.  However, there are a few ideas:
>
> 1/ A version of Phil Randal's script to download the supplemental  
> ClamAV
> phishing signatures from Steve Basford's SaneSecurity.com which uses
> MailScanner's locking to ensure that the database isn't updated  
> during a
> scan, and doesn't hit Steve's site more than 4 times a day.

Where do I get his script? And does it change much? We will end up  
maintaining 2 versions of his script. I would much prefer that he  
maintains it and just checks when he needs to do the locking. It's a  
harmless addition to his code.

>
> 2/ Maybe add an AV scanner auto-detect feature to the installer or the
> MailScanner main Perl process?  In most cases it's just looking for  
> the
> presence of the AV scanner binary (possibly in one of several places).
> In a few cases you need to run the binary and ask it for its  
> version to
> figure out which of several wrappers to use.

Already done, this is now the default setup I ship.

Virus Scanners = auto

>
> 3/ There's always qpsmtpd/qmail support, but you've indicated in the
> past that you want someone else to take that on.

I'm not touching qmail, there are other people doing that.

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