On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 08:45:15PM +0100, Pete Henshall wrote: > (Not intending to upset anyone...) :) > > I was just wondering why qmail-scanner is written in perl? It is a damn
...because I'm not a programmer? :-) Seriously - I'm not. I'm a physicist by training. I can read C, can hardly fathom C++ - but write TONNES of perl and PHP. Frankly, if one of the other Open Source AV products (e.g. Amavis) took on most of Qmail-Scanners functionality (mainly lacking is the information gathering/content-scanning side - oh yeah - and Qmail support ;-), I'd probably loose interest in maintaining Q-S as I wouldn't see the point. I guess because of my Information Security hat, I'm more interested in the *visibility* Qmail-Scanner gives me into the *kind* of e-mail being sent around - more than the actual "blocking-viruses" part. We use the "log-details" function here at lot to track down weird e-mail problems - without Qmail-Scanner we'd be unable to. No other product other than high-end commercial products provides the kind of detail Qmail-Scanner does. All that's still lacking is the pretty graphs :-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
