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

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It will give me something todo this Bank Holiday weekend instead of mowing
the lawn :)

On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:55:15 +0100, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> 
> 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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