New Beta 4.58.6 released

[Julian Field]

Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Monday January 29, 2007 at 04:00:48 (AM) Glenn Steen wrote:
>
>   
>> On 29/01/07, Mike Jakubik <mikej at rogers.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>       
>>>> There was 1 serious bug in 4.58.5 which I have now hopefully fixed.
>>>>
>>>> *Please* give this version a try as I don't intend changing anything
>>>> before the 1st Feb stable release unless you notify me of any problems
>>>> or bugs.
>>>>
>>>> Support for the 'p' records in Postfix 2.3/2.4 will have to wait for
>>>> the next release of MailScanner, personally I think it is a nasty
>>>> bodge. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Weitse changed his mind on
>>>> this topic, he certainly should do.
>>>>         
>>> Julian,
>>>
>>> Could you give a little more detail as to what 'p' records are, and how
>>> this will affect MS's compatibility with postfix?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>       
>> Mike,
>>
>> Download the postfix source and read the comment in
>> src/cleanup/cleanup_milter.c (starts on line 114 in the version 2.3.6
>> sources). This is so far the best explanation of what it is I've
>> found.
>>
>> If we manage to implement "support" for it correctly, it'll not change
>> the support/non-support status of postfix one whit (Jules still
>> supports it, Wietse will still see us as more evil than the horned
>> devil for perusing the queue files directly... Well, perhaps not that
>> evil, but close:-).
>>
>> We aim at making "milter edited queue files" -> "a (new) normal queue file".
>>
>> If you want my patches to look at beforehand, I can get them to you in
>> a blink:-). So far they've been tested by me and Nerijus Baliunas (who
>> is a brave soul and seems to be running them in production:-). They're
>> good for 2.3 with milters, not yet 2.4 with body editing milters.
>>     
>
> I posted the original post regarding 'p' records on the Postfix forum,
> and these are two of the responses that I received.
>
>
> Software that depends on Postfix INTERNAL interfaces breaks the
> warranty.
Since when did his software come with a warranty? Ooohh, can I sue him 
please? Please?

Jules

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