[Mimedefang] SA or not to SA was Spamassassin Removal?

[Kevin A. McGrail]

Excellent points.

For better or worse, we are committed to maintaining MD and security 
issues would have very rapid responses.

And we do have a bug bounty sponsorship program too which has been very 
helpful fixing security issues for other projects.

Regards,
KAM

On 7/27/2021 9:41 AM, Dianne Skoll via MIMEDefang wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:22:41 -0400
> "Kevin A. McGrail via MIMEDefang" <mimedefang at lists.mimedefang.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For the stubs, great point. What would you estimate the RAM usage is?
>> I'm assuming pretty tiny.
> The SA glue code is pretty tiny.  The anti-virus glue code in
> mimedefang.pl is substantially larger, making up more than 50% of all
> the lines in mimedefang.pl.  Since people are unlikely to be running
> more than one virus scanner, it means about 50% of mimedefang.pl is
> just dead weight.
>
> More code isn't only more RAM; it's also more attack surface.  Security
> best practices indicate not installing code you don't need.
>
>> We're about to put out MIMEDefang 2.85 and can build one without SA
>> as a dependency if you think it's more than a few Kilobytes.
> As per my posting at
> https://lists.mimedefang.org/pipermail/mimedefang_lists.mimedefang.org/2020-November/029601.html
> I don't think MIMEDefang is fixable with little tweaks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dianne.
>
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