[Mimedefang] Mimedefang/Spamassassin/MySQL Web Interface
Bill Maidment
bill.maidment at elgas.com.au
Mon Jul 28 22:26:01 EDT 2003
Daniel Kasak wrote:
> While this sounds like a good idea, it also invades Roaring Penguin's
> market for CanIt ( which we are currently using under a 30-day trial ).
> I assume that since Mimedefang and Spamassassin are both released as
> open source, then there is no legal barrier to you producing a web
> interface to configure the 2, but I think it would be a great pitty if
> in doing so you 'stole' some of Roaring Penguin's customers.
>
> This issue no doubt makes it very hard for companies to release some
> of their work as open source and still attract customers. I'd rather
> see the determined few who can handle setting up Mimedefand and
> Spamassassin do it the free way, and others who don't have the time or
> do have the resources, to pay for the commercial version and support
> those who support everyone else. At least that was my line of thinking
> in recommending that we trial CanIt ( which by the way management are
> pretty impressed with - hopefully they'll approve the purchase ).
>
> Sorry to put a dampener on your idea. It is a great idea - except for
> the above.
>
> What do others think?
>
Well, we bought CanIt, but we're still using the free version as it
seems more advanced. We might switch over later, if it's already got a
GUI/MySQL front end to it, I just have to get the time to look at it
properly ;-)
Cheers
Bill Maidment
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