On 9/22/2011 3:49 PM, Henno Täht wrote: > Is it reasonable to assume that most third party plugins survive > version upgrades?
With the documented postfix third-party interfaces -- policy service, milter, smtp proxy, content filter, TCP tables, other stuff -- care is taken to maintain compatibility between versions even as features are added. Care is also taken to document the expected data exchange format, and to document any changes introduced by software evolution. As a result of this time consuming design and testing process, the vast majority of third party plugins will work with their designed version of postfix and later. > That's what I suspect the forwarder is seeking and > why they call 3rd party plug-ins 'hacks'. The original poster is apparently referring to a very old third party postfix source code patch attempting to implement libsrs. IIRC the patch was never stable nor functional at a production level, and never widely used. In general, source patches become less usable as the base software evolves. I don't know the status of this particular patch, but I would be surprised if it can be used with current postfix without major surgery. Calling it a hack seems appropriate. -- Noel Jones
