>> I noticed amavisd-new is being pulled in by the "filter" USE flag in >> squirrelmail. I don't use amavisd-new (I greylist), so I removed >> filter from make.conf and then realized it is also used in the php >> package. I only use php with squirrelmail. Is it safe for me to >> remove the filter USE flag from php? I don't want to make a security >> mistake. > > The filter useflag in PHP allow PHP users to filter PHP output to compress it > for example, as euse -i filter shows us: > > xav...@xps ~ $ euse -i filter > global use flags (searching: filter) > ************************************************************ > no matching entries found > > local use flags (searching: filter) > ************************************************************ > [+ ] filter (dev-lang/php): > Add filter extension support > > [+ ] filter (mail-client/squirrelmail): > Enable mail-filter/amavisd-new filtering > > so filter is not a global useflag, you can disable it if you do not need > filter > extension in php, and it is also safe.
Thanks Xavier. I couldn't remember why I enabled it in the first place, and I thought it could have been to secure PHP. I only use PHP with squirrelmail though, so it sounds like it's alright. - Grant
