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List:       qmail-scanner-general
Subject:    Re: [Qmail-scanner-general]a bit OT: why perl?
From:       Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble ! co ! nz>
Date:       2003-06-29 23:25:23
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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
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