OT: building new server, need MTA advice

[Scott Silva]

Chris Yuzik spake the following on 1/29/2007 4:20 PM:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> I wouldn't say changing it to break Mailscanner. More like changing it to
>> exercise creative control over his work. He wants things done a
>> certain way,
>> and that leaves him room to change the internals of his program without
>> worrying if it breaks something outside his control, or breaks how his
>> software used to work. Not worrying about backward compatibility frees
>> him to
>> be creative to the ends he wants.
>> If it breaks the code of those that think outside "his" box, then that
>> is of
>> no consequence to him. He "warned" everyone.
>> He does have the right to change his code. But that probably keeps
>> more people
>> away from postfix.
>> Julian will make mailscanner work with postfix. He always has. Or he
>> will get
>> to a point where he doesn't want to mess with it anymore.
> Hmmm. Interesting. So then Postfix is sort of a "dictatorship opensource
> project"? I would have thought that people would want their software to
> NOT break people's production servers.
> 
> Typically, how long has the lag been from a new version of Postfix that
> breaks things until a new version of MailScanner comes out that makes
> them work again?
> 
> Chris
Julian usually has a beta up within a week, maybe two. Many times it is only a
few days.
It usually is fixed by the next full release. So not very long. There are
several beta testers using postfix, and they hammer the code pretty well and
toss patches and suggestions back.
So mailscanner doesn't work with postfix "because of" Wietse. It works "in
spite of him".

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You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!