MailScanner Development

[Quintin Giesbrecht]

Just curious...

We've been using MailScanner for a long time (I have used it at 2 different employers for more than 10 years).

At my latest firm, where I have been for 8 years, we took a break for about a year and a half, and tried out a commercial appliance - it was HORRIBLE.

In any case, we are back, and fully enjoying MailScanner again :)

I do have a question though, that I have searched for, and haven't found an answer to so far. I believe that at one time, new versions of MS came out almost monthly (correct me if I am wrong), and I notice that the latest version available is from November of last year. Is development still continuing? I hope so :)

Sorry if this has been asked and answered, I just couldn't find it...


Thanks!


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Quintin Giesbrecht
Smith Neufeld Jodoin LLP
IT Manager
q at snj.ca<mailto:q at snj.ca>
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[Glenn Steen]

Just curious?
We?ve been using MailScanner for a long time (I have used it at 2 different
employers for more than 10 years).
At my latest firm, where I have been for 8 years, we took a break for about
a year and a half, and tried out a commercial appliance ? it was HORRIBLE.
In any case, we are back, and fully enjoying MailScanner again J
I do have a question though, that I have searched for, and haven?t found an
answer to so far. I believe that at one time, new versions of MS came out
almost monthly (correct me if I am wrong), and I notice that the latest
version available is from November of last year. Is development still
continuing? I hope so J

Hello Quintin,

AFAIU, Jules has more or less passed this on to some members of this
list (among others the Baruwa originator), and most (if not all)
development is tracked on github these days... Search the list for
github references and you'll see:-).

BTW you don't remember wrong... It used to be a stable release every
month, then bimonthly... and now almost never:-):-).
It might reflect a couple of different things... That the product has
stabilised nicely, that email threats are on a decline (well:-) etc.
Major factor is probably that Jules isn't so directly involved any more.

Cheers
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-- Glenn

Sorry if this has been asked and answered, I just couldn?t find it?
Thanks!
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Quintin Giesbrecht
Smith Neufeld Jodoin LLP
IT Manager
q at snj.ca
[phone]
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[Andrew Colin Kissa]

Post by Glenn Steen
AFAIU, Jules has more or less passed this on to some members of this
list (among others the Baruwa originator), and most (if not all)
development is tracked on github these days... Search the list for
github references and you'll see:-).
BTW you don't remember wrong... It used to be a stable release every
month, then bimonthly... and now almost never:-):-).
It might reflect a couple of different things... That the product has
stabilised nicely, that email threats are on a decline (well:-) etc.
Major factor is probably that Jules isn't so directly involved any more.

The product has mostly reached maturity in the present state, there is not
enough code changes any more to justify a monthly release.

That having been said, there a few ideas that i would like to implement to
improve the performance and speed of processing one being changing from
scanning the queue to a file monitoring based pickup instead which will
immediately scan the message as soon as it is written to the MTA spool
directory.

Anyone with feature requests should file them to the Github issues.

- Andrew

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[Rick Cooper]

Post by Andrew Colin Kissa

Post by Glenn Steen
AFAIU, Jules has more or less passed this on to some members of this
list (among others the Baruwa originator), and most (if not all)
development is tracked on github these days... Search the list for
github references and you'll see:-).
BTW you don't remember wrong... It used to be a stable release every
month, then bimonthly... and now almost never:-):-).
It might reflect a couple of different things... That the product has
stabilised nicely, that email threats are on a decline (well:-) etc.
Major factor is probably that Jules isn't so directly involved any more.

The product has mostly reached maturity in the present state, there
is not enough code changes any more to justify a monthly release.
That having been said, there a few ideas that i would like to
implement to improve the performance and speed of processing one
being changing from scanning the queue to a file monitoring based
pickup instead which will immediately scan the message as soon as it
is written to the MTA spool directory.
Anyone with feature requests should file them to the Github issues.
- Andrew
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www.baruwa.org

Is there a link for that? I have, some time ago, been running spamd instead
of the perl module and while the speed difference is insignificant the
memory usage and aparent load is probably more than switching from the
clamav module to clamd

Rick Cooper

[Andrew Colin Kissa]

Post by Rick Cooper
Is there a link for that? I have, some time ago, been running spamd instead
of the perl module and while the speed difference is insignificant the
memory usage and aparent load is probably more than switching from the
clamav module to clamd

https://github.com/MailScanner/MailScanner/issues/new

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