PF2.4 support - was Re: feature request: compress attachments

[Julian Field]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 24/05/07, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 24/05/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> > Glen,
>> >
>> > My brain is not well enough to get my head round this stuff. It's all
>> > washing in through my eyes and straight out of my ears unfortunately.
>> >
>> > Is there any chance you could find time to implement the 2.4 
>> support as
>> > you say you already have an idea how to do it anyway please?
>> >
>> > Once you're convinced it works, I'll then just adopt your patches.
>> >
>> > Sorry, I'm just not up to doing this myself, but would very much 
>> like to
>> > get full PF support in as soon as possible.
>> >
>> > If you can generate a few test messages for me, I'll then test your 
>> code
>> > and hopefully start to gain a bit of insight into how it works.
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> > Jules.
>>
>> I'll see what I can do... The problem is testing it all... Very 
>> timeconsuming.
>> I found the first draft for 2.4 support, but ... it needs testing...
>> I'll see what I can do, perhaps this weekend.
>>
>
> Ok, found some time right now... I've tested this mainly with
> handcrafted queue files, and in my production (which does not use a
> body editing/replacing milter...), without any discernible bad effect.
> There is a price though, since we exchange a nice/fast seek with a
> semi-convoluted loop.
>
> The code is ugly, and could well bear with some constructive
> critisism... and if some sharp (postmix-friendly:-) minds like Dhawal,
> Drew, Joshua, Phil (Uxbod) or Gerhard could find some time to
> test/read/verify both the thinking and code, that would be much
> appreciated. Even some non-postfix-liking minds would be very much
> appreciated (That means you, oh evil bunny;-).
> It should be good enough for a beta:-). So if you feel up to it, and
> don't think it too massive a thing Jules...:-)
That's just what I wanted, many thanks.
I'll put out a beta in a bit with this in it.
I assume this patch includes your previous patch, and is directly 
applicable to the main MailScanner source.

Jules

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