MailScanner Digest, Vol 228, Issue 3

[Maarten]

Hello Jerry,

I'm happy with MailScanner. My only worries was that someone here 
mentioned that MailScanner isn't actively developed anymore that's why I 
was asking if anyone knew any alternatives.
Other option could also to try it without MailScanner since I'm only 
using it for mp personal mail setup

Kind Regards,
Maarten

On 2025-10-21 14:55, Jerry  Benton wrote:
> From ChatGPT:
> 
>  	* If you want maximum control and are willing to build your
> filtering gateway logic (routing, policy, custom filters) from the
> ground up: go with MailScanner. It gives you the tools, you fill in
> the logic.
> 	* If you want a robust, production-ready gateway that still allows
> customization but less build-from-scratch: go with Proxmox Mail
> Gateway.
> 	* If you prefer something simpler because you don’t want to spend a
> lot of time building and you’re more concerned with “it works out
> of the box”: consider MailCleaner — but check viability/updates
> for your scale, because of the development status.
> 
> My suggestion: MailScanner or Proxmox.
> 
> If you want to use MailScanner but want a GUI and are ok with CentOS,
> try https://efa-project.org
> 
> --
> 
> Jerry Benton
> 
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> From: MailScanner
> <mailscanner-bounces+jerry.benton=mailborder.com at lists.mailscanner.info>
> on behalf of Maarten via MailScanner
> <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 08:44
> To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Cc: Maarten <mailscanner at feedmebits.nl>, Adrian P. van Bloois
> <adrian at pa0rda.nl>
> Subject: Re: MailScanner Digest, Vol 228, Issue 3
> 
> Thanks for your reply! I did that.
> 
> Is there anyone is this mailinglist that knows if that's the case or
> not? If it's not being developed anymore than it might be better for
> me
> to switch to something else.
> Not sure what a better alternative would be if MailScanner is not
> being
> actively developed anymore?
> 
> On 2025-10-21 12:34, Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:
>> I'm not sure if MailScanner is still developed.
>> If you take the sources from github you can choose which packaging
> you
>> want, rpm or deb or whatever.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 12:00:01PM +0000,
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:37:47 +0200
>>> From: Maarten <mailscanner at feedmebits.nl>
>>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> Subject: Question about mailscanner package updates
>>> Message-ID: <efe3707ff98dc838fdf36df4e758c15f at feedmebits.nl>
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>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm redoing my personal mailserver setup and going from CentOS to
>>> Debian. Now I'm using Ansible to setup everything. I have just
>>> finished
>>> my entire setup and
>>> I just discovered that /etc/MailScanner/conf.d is included for
> custom
>>> settings. I don't really want to redo my MailScanner configuration
>>> right
>>> now. So my
>>> question is if mailscanner is updated with an rpm or deb package
> and
>>> you
>>> then have to run ms-configure --update at what point are updated
>>> changes
>>> made to
>>> MailScanner.conf so that I figure out at what point in my Ansible
> code
>>> to make backup of my current configuration so that I can compare
> the
>>> old
>>> config to
>>> the new config to check if I need to make any Changes to my Ansible
>>> template of MailScanner.conf?
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
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>>        Adri P. van Bloois
>> 
>> 
>>        It's never too late for early music!!!
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