From: Flinn Mueller (portsactiveintra.net)
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 17:34:48 CST

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Yeah, I definitely do not want to be responsible for introducing
security issues. I guess the port has to be unofficial for a little
while longer. Most of the people using it are using custom setups
anyhow. I myself am running qmail-scanner which is not in the tree,
and I know a lot of people are using it with amavis, and then of course
everyone who is using milter.

Still though, clamav itself is useful for other than mail purposes.

Thanks for the status update everyone. I will be looking forward to
updating the port soon.

Regards,
Flinn

On Jan 1, 2004, at 6:13 PM, Jose Nazario wrote:

> flinn was asking about the libmilter port. right now it's on hold and
> moot
> until he in-tree sendmail has milter enabled by default. otherwise you
> still have to rebuild sendmail, which means having the src around. the
> milter port is trying to avoid that.
>
> i want milter around, myself, but i'm not the only one who has to make
> that decision.
>
> there may be technical issues to getting milter enabled by default in
> sendmail, someone was looking at it some time ago. i don't know what
> they
> came up with. the primary issues here are breaking on other
> architectures
> and any security/stability issues introduced. we can't step backwards
> as
> we add new features.
>
> so, things (like clamav) requiring milter support will have to wait a
> bit
> longer. :-/
>
> ___________________________
> jose nazario, ph.d. josemonkey.org
> http://monkey.org/~jose/
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