Re: Perhaps it's time for a new fork

I will upload to a new repo soon and share here.

Joe

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM bh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Joe- are you working against a public repo where those of us interested in
> contributing could track issues and progress?
> -B
>
> On Sep 12, 2025, at 4:59 PM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
> The first step on the journey.
>
> Remove MDB2 and require PDO; configtest works, but there is still more to
> be done.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM bh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Chiming in on this thread, as I’ve been watching it closely.   A couple
>> thoughts I’d like to submit:
>>
>> 1 - jjs is absolutely correct.  At this stage, let’s not let stylistic
>> concerns impede progress on preserving/restoring functionality.  Turn off
>> your linter’s style rules and focus on functional issues for now.
>>
>> 2 - I liked Maya because of how it handled quarantining.  I like the
>> web-interface approach, as opposed to depending on a particular MUA knowing
>> how to talk to the filtering system to report ham/spam.
>>
>> I’m also interested in contributing to this effort, as I think of myself
>> as a moderately knowledgeable PHP developer.  What I can’t guarantee,
>> sadly, is time or mental energy.  I guess that describes most of us, really.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Brian
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2025, at 12:57 PM, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> IMHO 99% of these errors are cosmetic and don't affect the ability of the
>> code to run under php 8.
>>
>> I've started with configtest.php, and made some progress in getting it to
>> run, but I ran into a roadblock with MDB2, which is incompatible with php
>> 8, and will have to be migrated to PDO.
>>
>> I'm encouraged to find that the string 'MDB2' appears in only 5 of the
>> 902 files, so that's a bit more manageable than I initially thought.
>>
>> So, the current issue is clear: convert the MDB2 code to use PDO, and
>> then we'll see what things look like at that point.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> BTW here's the php code checker output for one file (admindex.php).
>>> Hopefully I'll figure out a way to speed up this process.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting - well obviously the php is the most broken part at this
>>>> point, so that's my focus right now.
>>>>
>>>> But if someone wants to work on amavisd-new/maiad in parallel, that
>>>> would be great.
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM Travis Mikalson <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I feel bad piling on, but my other big concern is that maia's actual
>>>>> main mail scanning daemon is a severely outdated amavisd-new 2.2.1
>>>>> from
>>>>> around 2002 as far as I know.
>>>>>
>>>>>  From what I can tell, a few cherry picked updates and fixes were
>>>>> brought in from upstream at some point, but that would've stopped 10+
>>>>> years ago. AFAIK, there's something like 10-20 years of amavisd
>>>>> updates
>>>>> missing from maiad.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/11/2025 20:50, Janky Jay, III wrote:
>>>>> > Also, if possible/comfortable, please provide a link to any new
>>>>> > forks/code so the rest of us can track it. It would be great to be
>>>>> able
>>>>> > to contribute our chime in if I can.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards,
>>>>> > Janky Jay, III
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