MPP and Beyond

We have a new beta of our GUI module that has many of the latest features of our upcoming release integrated including international signatures and our new esmtp quarantine transports and some fixes in our new graphing module.

ftp://ftp.messagepartners.com/pub/mpp3/beta/webmin/mpp.wbm.gz

In our upcoming release we will include a new method to use MPP strictly as a scanning device to any application or script that make LMTP and SMTP calls. MPP will process requests from any remote client and hand back a complete scan report to the entity. This makes MPP scanners, policies and embedded features available to scripts or other applications.

Ovidiu has written a
brief guide, please take a look and give us your feedback.

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We have developed a very simple but powerful interface for MPP so that all of our features and scanning engines can now be accessed via very simple scripts. This mean that a procmail or perl script could submit a message to mppd and then take actions based on the results. We use smtp and lmtp for protocol.

Anyways, we need some sample scripts to call mppd in this way and I want to see if anyone is interested to contribute scripts if I supply you the code. Ideas are to utilize mppd from procmail, php, perl, python, etc.

If you have any interest in helping out with this endeavor please let me know. You can post your results directly on our wiki for instance access to our growing user community.

Thank You
Mike Katz
mkatz@messagepartners.com

We have a new beta available for adding signatures or disclaimers that contain non-english charachters.

There is a beta available to add signatures in non-english charachter sets using signature option:

How it works: For “signature” option, besides mandatory “location”
attribute, there is a new optional attribute: “charset”.

charset="ISO-8859-2" />
Semnătură cu diacritice
româneşti: ăâîşţ

For messages having text parts using the same charset as “charset”
attribute of “signature” option, MPP will append signature, otherwise
signature can be appended to the message with a few exceptions (messages
with no MIME part, multipart/alternative messages using a different
charset than “charset” attribute of signature option.

In an effort to simplify we have redesigned our download page. Comments are welcome!

We have a new beta available with the enhancements described below. These are mostly suitable for larger sites, but represent major structural improvements in MPP.

1) We have completed an internal dynamic queue structure for the Postfix interface so that we can dynamically allocate thread resources as needed. This is important to scale our policy server.

2) We have completed a disk-queue system so that email is first sent to a disk queue before being written to quarantine. This avoids db issues from effecting mail flow and performance.

3) We have completed a new method for transporting quarantine email between instances of MPP via esmtp. Presently, each mppd connects to a remote database, and a db failure will effect all mpp instances, this is now removed since we use esmtp to transport between instances of mpp. This is vital for scaling quarantine and removing single points of failure in the quarantine/archival system. In the new scheme remote mppd’s speak via esmtp to a central mppd that only receives quarantine or archive messages on esmtp port and writes to disk queue and then db.

4) It is now possible to run multiple instances of mppd on one system and also to define no content engines. This is relevant to the model of a centralized mppd that just processes messages for db storage.

5) We have a new quarantine/archive format that is optimized for very large implementations. We can use old or new formats.

Please let me know if you are interested to test these very cool new features.

For all of this, in just one email, I should have bought just one Viagra….

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