AMaViS-ng compared to amavisd-new (was Re: [Exim] Exim 4.10:…

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Author: Ralf G. R. Bergs
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To: exim-users@exim.org
CC: Marc Haber
Old-Topics: Re: [Exim] Exim 4.10: erroneous "all relevant MX records point..."
Subject: AMaViS-ng compared to amavisd-new (was Re: [Exim] Exim 4.10: erroneous "all relevant MX records point..."
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:37:53 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:42:12 +0200, "Ralf G. R. Bergs"
><rabe@???> wrote:
>>On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:56:38 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>>>old amavis technology. Use amavis-ng from the system filter, and you
>>>won't influence your debugging possibilities. This is one of the
>>>reasons why I don't like the old oMr approach any more.
>>
>>Can you elaborate what would be different if I employed this approach? (Apart
>>from easier debugging, as you seem to suggest.)
>
>amavis-ng is an entirely new program, a modular design. Some code has
>been taken from amavis, but the logic is different. The system filter
>approach uses embedded perl, and the e-mail is only passed through
>exim once. If the mail is clean, you can't see that the mail was
>scanned as opposed to the additional set of Received:-Headers that are
>added with the old approach.


Hmmm. That DOES sound as if it's worth trying it out -- BUT there's no Debian
package?! Did you roll your own (you're still using Debian, right?!)? I don't
feel like installing stuff on my system that's not debianized, and I also don't
feel like doing it myself at the moment ("out of time error" ;-)


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