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I am a relatively newcomer to the MailScanner land but I have been
running mail servers <br>
(sendmail for too many years to admit and postfix for the last 3 years)
and I have come <br>
across this Postfix-with-MS incompatibility issue. Apparently the
Postfix developers<br>
are seriously anti-MS because MS DOES not use their own way of message
passing <br>
between the SMTP processes and the MS processes (apparently they
recommend LMTP).<br>
I have read a lot of this on the Postfix lists and while there is a
serious issue of how<br>
a message is moved from the SMTP service to the virus/spam-detecting
service I have come to the <br>
conclusion that there are only a couple of issues that need to be
clarified from the MS point of view<br>
(the rest seems politics to me which I cannot comment since I do not
know the players involved):<br>
<br>
1. How does MS make sure that when dealing with the incoming Postfix
queue it does not ake a mess<br>
of it? In other words how does MS know that a message in the queue is
free and ready to be processed<br>
and that Postfix is not working on it? <br>
2. Apparently the Postfix guys believe that the queue file structure is
there own internal "thing"<br>
which they do not or would not make public and if a new upgraded
structure is created MS will fail miserably <br>
upon Postfix upgrade. Remember that MS depends on this structure to
properly make changes in the<br>
files.<br>
<br>
I was very suddened by the discussion in the Postfix lists. In my view
this sort of thing should<br>
happen in the commercial software world, not on open source projects. <br>
I would appreciate an answer (even if it is obvious) from somebody that
knows enough of the internals <br>
of MS.<br>
<br>
thanks!<br>
Andreas Kasenides<br>
<br>
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<br>
I was looking for a complete tutorial to setup a mail filter for our
existing
server and came upon the following article (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_spam_filter_mail_gateway">http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_spam_filter_mail_gateway</a>)
but reading the comments below it, it stated the implementation of
Mailscanner
with postfix in this manner was unsupported?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you guys confirm or deny this, and if so
possibly recommend
a similar tutorial?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for any input!<br>
jlc<o:p></o:p></p>
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