ANNOUNCE: amavisd-new-2.11.0 released

[Phil Regnauld]

Noel Butler (noel.butler) writes:
> 
> clap clap
> its what a few people have been CALLING FOR, for a few years, rather than
> suicide, fill up our logs constantly at high speed rate to point of 100's
> megs and saying oh we cant find it, it could just as well bloody re-create
> it - again, what we've been calling for, for years! I get better responses
> talking to my rottweiler than seem to do around here (and Cc'd to Mark
> directly incase he as previously admits doesn't read the list all the time),
> as do a lot of people.
> 
> amavisd is great code - WHEN it works. Not good to find one of the mail
> boxes quiet in peak times, load balancers dont block or alarms dont go off
> because postfix responds (even to auth, as does pop3/imap) and a look on
> that server finds a queue of 40K+ messages in just a few hours sitting there
> doing S.F.A. so betya you too would be pissed off.

	So, you've:

	- used amavisd-new for years
	- you've identified the problem (I assume you've sent patches to fix the issue)

	And, years later, you are still complaining about the issue, you haven't
	remedied the problem in your own setup (say, by prefixing the startup
	script with a command to touch the missing DB file), and you still
	manually have to deal with a box when it's not processing mails ?
	But yet you still use the software...

> anyway, late last night I installed mailscanner on one of the servers, gunna
> run that for a while before deciding if we move all of the mail servers over
> to it.

	Yes, I think it would be a good thing for you to switch to mailscanner.

	Cheers,
	Phil