[nos-bbs] This thread about adding spam support to JNOS ...

[Barry Siegfried]

[maiko at pcs.mb.ca wrote]:

> The question perhaps is, is it really worth the effort to add anti-
> spam support to JNOS or TNOS for that matter ? Personally, I'm not
> terribly enthusiatic about that aspect of NOS. My interest in NOS
> has always been as a ROUTER, and not much more. But, let's talk
> about this anyways ... I'm just going to toss some ideas out.

[snip]

>    Perhaps Barry (K2MF) wouldn't mind us dumping the JNOS services
>    and putting in his MFNOS smtp variant in place. From what I under
>    stand, Barry has pain stakingly tried his best to keep his SMTP
>    server to specification, and he has some nice features to boot.

I have never been terribly enthusiastic about SMTP services, or
*any* services in general in NOS and it would appear that Maiko
and I think alike in terms of our interests being in the ROUTING
capabilities of the program...

The MFNOS SMTP "variant" is not all that different from JNOS's except
that it handles *some* additional things which were handpicked and
developed to satisfy my own needs at the time.  I have actually *not*
attempted to keep the MFNOS SMTP server completely up to "spec" (for
instance, I never added recognition for the extended commands like
"EHLO").  It simply has a little spam filtering added to it and plays
a few tricks here and there.  I don't know whether or not it would be
worth it to try and integrate the whole MFNOS SMTP server module into
JNOS.  I personally tend to think it isn't...

> Just my 2 million dollars worth ...

Just my 2 bits worth...

73, de Barry, K2MF >>
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