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jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:05:02 -0700
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Keep us posted as to your progress on that front!

Joe

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM P.J. Tezza <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> *From:* [email protected]
> *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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