MailScanner v5?

[Jerry Benton]

I also want to know what people think about ditching “MailScanner” for “mailscanner"

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:08 AM, Jerry Benton <jerry.benton at mailborder.com> wrote:
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> Ok, I am looking at the structure of MailScanner, and it just is not fun. For example, take the executable update_virus_scanners . For someone that doesn’t really know MailScanner, what program does that file belong to? This relates to my effort to restructure based on FHS. I am also trying to make sure everything is consistent across every distro. 
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> So, the big things I have done for 4.86.1:
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> - moved directories to FHS
> - changing config files to be consistent (/etc/default/mailscanner => /etc/default/MailScanner on Debian for example)
> - changed a lot of the code so that the Debian code follows the same logic and format of the RHEL code
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> So, what I want to do now is create a common executable structure. For example:
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> update_virus_scanners => 		ms-vs-update
> update_spamassassin =>   		ms-sa-update
> update_phishing_sites =>  		ms-pss-update
> update_bad_phishing_sites =>	ms-pbs-update
> Quick.Peek =>				ms-peek
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> Or something similar. You get the idea. I also want to move things like this:
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> /etc/sysconfig/update_spamassassin
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> into the the main
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> /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner and /etc/default/MailScanner
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> Hell, I forgot there was even a /etc/sysconfig/update_spamassassin and I am on the development team.
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> In short, I want to make MailScanner consistent and much simpler to manage and operate.
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> Comments?
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> PS - If your comment is not constructive and follows the general theme of “you’re stupid, Jerry”, please feel free to not comment. 
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com
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