Re: (no subject)

"P.J. Tezza" <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:43:03 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.virus.maiamailguard
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It looks like Debian 13 uses php8.4: 
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/php8.4. I took a quick look at the 
Maia PHP source code on my working system. The PHP requirements are 
checked in admin/configtest.php. I don't see any obvious issues. With 
luck, modern versions of all the dependencies are available and 
backwards compatible.

PJ

On 9/10/25 11:08 AM, Lawrence Mulder wrote:
> Interest for sure in staying on Maia.
>
> Thanks,
> -Larry
>
>
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> *Sent:* September 10, 2025 1:33 PM
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>
>
> While I'm looking at alternatives, I would definitely stay on maia if 
> the php problems were solved. There is interest, for sure.
>
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM P.J. Tezza <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Like others here, I am still running Maia because it continues to
>     work.
>
>     From earlier posts, it looks like moving the Perl code to modern
>     Debian is straightforward and now the main issue is that the PHP
>     code can't run on modern PHP without changes. Having worked on
>     projects like this in the past, my guess is that upgrading the PHP
>     code to the latest and greatest probably isn't a big deal. If
>     there will be more than just me using it, I could be convinced to
>     work on it. In the past, I've been using Ubuntu, but it looks like
>     Debian 13 might be more popular for this project?
>
>     PJ
>
>     On 9/10/25 9:35 AM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>>     Just to conclude my train of thought here, I'm looking at a
>>     promising possibility called Modoboa - it's a system somewhat
>>     like maia, but uses django and vue instead of php for the web
>>     interface. Looks very promising. I'll be putting it through its
>>     paces.
>>
>>     Good luck.
>>
>>     Joe
>>
>>     On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM jjs - mainphrame
>>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>         Much as it pains me to say it, if the maia web interface is
>>         not updated to work with current software versions, I'll have
>>         to end this chapter, It's been a good run. We rolled out
>>         maia, with a support contract, to 6000 users at Toyota back
>>         in the early 2000s, and it beat all the available commercial
>>         solutions. Our east coast plant had spent nearly half a
>>         million dollars on a well known commercial solution, but in
>>         the end, they asked us to let them route their incoming mail
>>         through our maia system instead. It performed flawlessly. I'm
>>         gratified to see that all the perl code from 2005 works
>>         perfectly today, with the latest OS releases. The php
>>         component turned out to be the achilles heel.
>>
>>         I've reached out to Robert LeBlanc and haven't heard back, so
>>         it doesn't look good at this point.
>>
>>         I suppose the next best thing would be to have spamassassin,
>>         and possibly amavis, just tag suspected spam, deliver it and
>>         let my MUA sort it out. That simplifies things by eliminating
>>         the need for a web interface, and letting the end user mail
>>         program handle the details.
>>
>>         In the meantime I'll be on the lookout for any maia
>>         alternatives that I can recommend to others.
>>
>>         Joe
>>
>>         On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM jjs - mainphrame
>>         <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>             Thanks Janky,
>>
>>             I agree, the web situation is ugly, but the rest of it
>>             works so well I continue to hope that it might be updated.
>>
>>             Just out of curiosity, have you tried mailscanner?
>>
>>             Joe
>>
>>             On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM Janky Jay, III
>>             <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>                 Unfortunately, it is no longer in ports since the
>>                 project died upstream and PHP7 on FBSD is
>>                 unsupported. I was the port maintainer and finally,
>>                 but sadly, submitted its removal about 6 months ago.
>>
>>                 In all honesty, and it hurts me in my soul to say
>>                 this, I would highly suggest moving away from
>>                 Maia-Mailguard. I ended up migrating to Rspamd (very
>>                 easy migration) which takes a more modern approach
>>                 and no longer requires a web UI. Spam/Ham is learned
>>                 via IMAP mail movements so there isn't any user
>>                 interface to maintain. Makes things very simple and
>>                 you can incorporate all kinds of goodies with it from
>>                 SpamAssassin scoring to ClamAV scanning to
>>                 blacklist/whitelist to DMARC/SPF, etc... I just
>>                 really don't want to see anyone taking a hit by
>>                 running such a vulnerable version of PHP.
>>
>>                 Just my two cents.
>>
>>                 On 9/9/25 01:02PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>>>                 I know of several mailguard users on FreeBSD.
>>>
>>>                 If it's not in ports, I think it comes from this
>>>                 repo - https://github.com/technion/maia_mailguard
>>>
>>>                 Joe
>>>
>>>                 On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM jason hirsh
>>>                 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>                     Thanks.  I really liked Mailguard  Bur.. I am on
>>>                     FreeBSD
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>                     On Sep 9, 2025, at 2:43 PM, jjs - mainphrame
>>>>                     <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                     Some have reported issues reading the text in
>>>>                     my OP, so here's a screenshot
>>>>
>>>>                     Joe
>>>>
>>>>                     On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM jjs -
>>>>                     mainphrame <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                         My os upgrades for the maia service here
>>>>                         are complete, to the extent possible.
>>>>
>>>>                         Everything runs beautifully on Debian 13,
>>>>                         with the exception, of course, of the web
>>>>                         portal, which must for now at least, remain
>>>>                         on php 7.
>>>>
>>>>                         If only The web component could be updated,
>>>>                         maia would be golden.
>>>>
>>>>                         Old                                     New
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         maia servers
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         os              Debian 11
>>>>                                       Debian 13
>>>>                         maiad           1.0.4.1524
>>>>                                      1.0.4.1524
>>>>                         postfix         3.5.25                  3.10.4
>>>>                         spamassassin    3.4.6                   4.0.1
>>>>                         clamav          1.09                    1.4.3
>>>>                         perl            5.32                    5.40
>>>>
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         db server
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         os              Centos 7
>>>>                                        Debian 13
>>>>                         db              mariadb 5.5.68
>>>>                                  mariadb 11.8.3
>>>>
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         web portal
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         os              Debian 11
>>>>                         httpd           2.4.65
>>>>                         php             7.4.33
>>>>
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         pop/imap server
>>>>                         -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>                         os              Centos 7
>>>>                                        Debian 13
>>>>                         pop/imap        dovecot 2.2.36
>>>>                                  dovecot 2.4.1
>>>>
>>>>                         Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>>                         Joe
>>>>
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