a Mail virus Scanner (was Re: test)

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>  
>
>>>MailScanner is a no-go. It's not safe and loses mail, at least with Postfix
>>>

than i  *could*  say  "postfix is a no-go"  because i had lost emails 
with postfix, but i don´t.
i should mention that this happened on a system "without mailscanner"

>>>amavisd-new, OTOH, works with all the MTAs in fedora.
>>>

amavisd-new    or do you mean
amavis, amavisd, amavis-ng  ?

>>I use mailscanner with postfix and have not lost any mails.  how exactly are 
>>you losing the mail?
>>    
>>
>I'm not, because I don't use it. How do you know you haven't lost mails,
>though? ;-)
>  
>

you don´t use it but you know that this is the case?
i am sure you have heard about all the bugs in fedora, is fedora a 
"no-go" too ?

at least for  sendmail/mailscanner  i can *assure* you that i have lost 
absolutely no mail.

for postfix:
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml
afair  exists a patch for the last beta.

>At any rate, look through the postfix archives. Wietse rants periodically
>about how / why mailscanner isn't safe with Postfix.
>

> Earlier this month he posted a long list of how it would need to be re-architected to work
>safely....
>
for  postfix or mailscanner ;-)

additional he could perhaps send this "long list" to  "julian field"


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shrek-m