New Beta 4.58.6 released

[Glenn Steen]

On 29/01/07, Drew Marshall <drew at technologytiger.net> wrote:
> On Mon, January 29, 2007 12:31, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > I posted the original post regarding 'p' records on the Postfix forum,
> > and these are two of the responses that I received.
> >
> > //Quote//
> >
> > He is referring to his mis-use of the non-public, undocumented Postfix
> > queue file format and plans to keep track of changes in this format
> > rather than abandon its use.
> >
> > Mailscanner attempts to implement a fast-path for messages that are not
> > modified by the content scanner. It cuts too many corners to achieve
> > this goal.
> >
> >       Viktor.
> >
> > //End Quote//
> >
> > //Quote//
> >
> > It means that some people don't understand ELEMENTARY SOFTWARE
> > ENGINEERING practice.
> >
> > I spend huge efforts to maintain compatibility with software that
> > depends on EXTERNAL Postfix interfaces, even when MAJOR changes
> > are made to Postfix. If something breaks anyway, then I will do my
> > best to provide a solution to make it work again.
> >
> > Postfix queue files are an INTERNAL interface.
> >
> > Software that depends on Postfix INTERNAL interfaces breaks the
> > warranty. It is unsupported. It breaks even with MINOR Postfix
> > changes, and I will not provide a solution when it breaks.
> >
> >       Wietse
> >
> > //End Quote//
>
> Always such a delight to see nothing changes. :-)
>
> Well those of us using Postfix with MailScanner always knew that it would
> always be down to MailScanner to do the fixing :-(
>
> Drew
Well it really should be. One can argue in any of a whole lot of
directions, but it still remains true that we/Jules are responsible
for MailScanner, not Wietse. In inversely Wietse is responsible for
Postfix.
We'll get by:-):-)

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