Topic: General Stuff (a lil butt kissing)!

[Brandon Friedman]

Hey all

Just wanted to say thanks to e-smith - even though these are public board - I get a quick & helpful response.
I won't mention the support of other vendors (no names mentioned) but at least we dont have to downloaded the latest 'service packs' every week!!!!

I have just been looking at the future directions link and after wiping away the drool (yuck!) I have a few questions :

1) Why isn't E-smith 5.0 being based on RedHat 7.0?
2)What is the estimated release date - of beta & final?
3)What fax product/s are being considered?
4) What is 'Smtpd in front of qmail' and how can it be used with antivirus tools?

Just a suggestion - is there a possiblity of a some X-windows interface in future releases?

Thanks again
Brandon

[Charlie Brady]

Brandon Friedman wrote:

> 1) Why isn't E-smith 5.0 being based on RedHat 7.0?

It may be. RedHat 7.0 was not out when the futures list was put up. It's out now, but the jury is still out as to whether it is stable enough for us to base a release on.

> 2)What is the estimated release date - of beta & final?

That depends on many factors. If 5.0 is significantly delayed, there will be a 4.1.

> 3)What fax product/s are being considered?

Hylafax is top of the list, but making it work reliably with a wide range of fax modems will be a challenge.

> 4) What is 'Smtpd in front of qmail' and how can it be used with
> antivirus tools?

"smtpd" is a secure mail transport receiving daemon from obtuse.com.
The mail handover from smtpd to qmail gives us a nice place to put hooks in to do mail filtering. To do the same with qmail would require modifying the qmail source code, and the qmail license makes that difficult.

Using "smtpd" also allows us to add anti-SPAM features easily, and has the added disadvantage that it doesn't give false positive results to any "open mail relay testing" web sites.

> Just a suggestion - is there a possiblity of a some X-windows
> interface in future releases?

Very unlikely. We want the e-smith server software to be small, efficient, reliable and secure, and an X windows interface doesn't fit those requirements.

Regards

Charlie

[Brandon Friedman]

Hi...

Thanks

Just another question about smtpd - i see there is a rpm in the contrib directory: ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/contrib/gordonr/RPMS/i386/obtuse-smtpd-2.0-12.i386.rpm

I assume this is the add-on at the moment. A question that most of our client ask us is 'does it have antivirus support' ???. We have trend antivirus running on a server - which uses sendmail (works perfectly!!) Trend have also  drafted a qmail support on this product but I can't seem to find alot of the files, queues etc that they are talking about.

Can you use this add-on with antivirus tools?? And if so - which ones have been tested??

thanks
Brandon

[Charlie Brady]

Brandon Friedman wrote:

> Can you use this add-on with antivirus tools??

That's our intention, but we have only been providing the foundation, we haven't yet implemented any filtering.

> And if so - which ones have been tested??

None

Charlie

[Gordon Rowell]

Brandon Friedman wrote:

> Hi...
>
> Thanks
>
> Just another question about smtpd - i see there is a rpm in the
> contrib directory:
> ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/contrib/gordonr/RPMS/i386/obtuse-smtpd-2.0-12.i386.rpm
> [...]

And FYI, this is not an e-smith specific module. This is a replacement
for qmail-smtpd. Installing this RPM conflicts with the existing
qmail-smtpd setup, so use with care (i.e. wait for the scaffolding to
be released).

It needs configuration files, and this module only makes a general one,
not one customised/managed by e-smith. This will be in the e-smith-obtuse-smtpd RPM, when it arrives on the FTP site.

For those who know obtuse-smtpd, this one builds both a sendmail
and a qmail version of the daemon, and I am now the maintainer.

Gordon