Bug#685038: ITP: mailscanner -- email gateway for virus scanning, spam and phishing detection
On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:53:53 PM Aaron Schrab wrote:
> At 23:37 -0400 15 Aug 2012, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote:
> >Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> wrote:
> >
> >In order to integrate with postfix, mailscanner directly manipulates
> >internal postfix queue files. This is not supported by postfix and has
> >broken rather badly on multiple occasions in the past.
> >
> >Mailscanner's postfix integration should not be mentioned in the
> >package description and it's use should be discouraged in the package
> >documentation.
>
> I've been using it with postfix for quite a while without encountering
> any issues with that.
See the mailscanner entry on http://www.postfix.org/addon.html. The queue files
that mailscanner manipulates are not documented stable interfaces and they
change. So it may work now, but there's no guarantee that it will continue to
do so. It's an extremely poor design choice.
Scott K
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