MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Dropoff

Dimitri Yioulos dyioulos at firstbhph.com
Fri Jun 18 13:54:20 IST 2010 

Thanks, Julian, that would be great, and greatly 
appreciated!

Dimitri


On Friday 18 June 2010 3:36:42 am Julian Field 
wrote:
> I can try building a 32-bit version for you,
> but you will probably be limited to 2 Gbyte
> uploads. If that's not a problem for you, then
> I can do that. I probably won't have time to do
> it today as I've got a load of other things on
> right now, but if you're lucky I *might* do it
> this weekend.
>
> Out of Interest, why are you not moving to
> 64-bit? Modern CPUs have been able to run
> 64-bit for quite a long time now. What's the
> advantage? --
> Jules
> Sent from my iPad over 3G :-)
>
> On 18 Jun 2010, at 08:21 AM, "Mogens Melander" 
<mogens at fumlersoft.dk> wrote:
> > Well, i'm all 32-bit, as are my customers. So
> > i guess i'm not getting to try out this thing
> > anytime soon ;^)
> >
> > On Tue, June 15, 2010 15:09, Julian Field 
wrote:
> >> I'm afraid a 32-bit version is not going to
> >> be very high on my priority list, when
> >> everyone else in the world is adopting
> >> 64-bit if they haven't already.
> >>
> >> What's stopping you running the 64-bit
> >> version?
> >>
> >> On 15/06/2010 13:00, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> >>> Jules,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks so much for this handy new tool!
> >>>
> >>> Ours is a 32-bit shop.  I know you're
> >>> frightfully busy, but Is there any chance
> >>> you can create a 32-bit virtual machine
> >>> version?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again.
> >>>
> >>> Dimitri
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Monday 14 June 2010 4:41:09 am Julian
> >>> Field
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> I have just uploaded the VMWare disk image
> >>>> of a fully functional Dropoff system.
> >>>> There are some docs on the Dropoff.me
> >>>> website that will tell you how to
> >>>> configure it for your site once you've
> >>>> built a VM around it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jules.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 13/06/2010 20:45, Jules Field wrote:
> >>>>> I'm just about to put up a VMDK (i.e.
> >>>>> VMWare virtual disk image) of it, which
> >>>>> will save you all a lot of work
> >>>>> configuring it and fixing bugs in PHP
> >>>>> that prevent large uploads.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The documentation text is already
> >>>>> written, I've just got to get the VMDK
> >>>>> off my vSphere.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Jules.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 13/06/2010 20:36, Jason Ede wrote:
> >>>>>> It looks fantastic Jules, will
> >>>>>> definitely download it and have a play.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Jason
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>> From:
> >>>>>>> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.i
> >>>>>>>nfo [mailto:mailscanner-
> >>>>>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
> >>>>>>> Behalf Of Jules Field Sent: 13 June
> >>>>>>> 2010 19:30 To: MailScanner discussion
> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE:
> >>>>>>> Dropoff
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks for the comment.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As for integrating it, that counts as
> >>>>>>> 'user front-end interface' in
> >>>>>>> MailScanner, which is an area I have
> >>>>>>> never got involved in. So it will
> >>>>>>> remain a separate project for the time
> >>>>>>> being, albeit one which MailScanner
> >>>>>>> admins might like to install for their
> >>>>>>> users' benefit.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Jules.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 13/06/2010 05:11, Supun Rathnayake 
wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Hi jules,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thank you very much for the
> >>>>>>>> interesting tool, very much essential
> >>>>>>>> for the obvious reasons that you have
> >>>>>>>> explained.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This is just an idea, how about
> >>>>>>>> integrating this tool with
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> MailScanner
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> for quarantine management.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>>> Supun.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 06/12/2010 08:41 PM, Jules Field 
wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> The Scenario:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> You have installed MailScanner at
> >>>>>>>>> your site to protect all your
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> users
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> and clients from all sorts of
> >>>>>>>>> dangerous email content. Okay so far.
> >>>>>>>>> But your users need to be able to
> >>>>>>>>> send large files, executables, and
> >>>>>>>>> all sorts of other things that they
> >>>>>>>>> used to try to send by email. Some of
> >>>>>>>>> these are restricted by MailScanner,
> >>>>>>>>> others (such as large files) are
> >>>>>>>>> restricted by your email system's
> >>>>>>>>> capacity. And your users also need to
> >>>>>>>>> be able to receive files from other
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> sites
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> around the world, without having any
> >>>>>>>>> username/password access to
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> your
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> systems.
> >>>>>>>>> And it needs to be secure.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> So your users need to be able to send
> >>>>>>>>> and receive all sort of files and
> >>>>>>>>> email is not the right tool for the
> >>>>>>>>> job.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Say "Hello!" to Dropoff.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> This is a simple web-based system
> >>>>>>>>> where your users can send and receive
> >>>>>>>>> files to and from anyone in the
> >>>>>>>>> world, and yet it can't be used for
> >>>>>>>>> public warez or porn sharing.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Anyone in the world can send files to
> >>>>>>>>> you (but not to the rest of
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> world), and your users can send files
> >>>>>>>>> to anyone in the world. All uploaded
> >>>>>>>>> files are scanned for viruses, so
> >>>>>>>>> it's safe. Authentication of your
> >>>>>>>>> users can be done via Active
> >>>>>>>>> Directory, LDAP, IMAP or a static
> >>>>>>>>> file. It's small, light-weight,
> >>>>>>>>> simple and safe. It's all written in
> >>>>>>>>> PHP so you can read the source and
> >>>>>>>>> add or change features as you desire.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Take a look at
> >>>>>>>>>              www.dropoff.me
> >>>>>>>>> where you can read about it and
> >>>>>>>>> download it.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> It's entirely free and open source,
> >>>>>>>>> of course.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Note: I did not write all of this.
> >>>>>>>>> Dropoff is my fork of the "Dropbox"
> >>>>>>>>> package originally written at the
> >>>>>>>>> University of Delaware.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> have added new features and fixed
> >>>>>>>>> some bugs. I intend to continue
> >>>>>>>>> developing it as needed.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Let me know what you think!
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Jules
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Jules
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> --
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> >>>>> Jules
> >>>>
> >>>> Jules
> >>>>
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> >>
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> >
> > Mogens Melander
> >
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