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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017, at 13:43 CST, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'd like to push out attached news item ASAP. Please review. |
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Looks good. Has a clear and precise structure. |
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> Title: =mail-mta/exim-4.88 problem with chunking |
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> Author: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2017-03-01 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: =mail-mta/exim-4.88 |
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> Exim maintainers discovered that version 4.88 has some serious problems |
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> with its CHUNKING extension. To quote: |
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> There are various known problems which can result in messages stuck in |
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> queues and remote servers dropping connections on larger mails. |
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> In Gentoo, Exim 4.88 is the only stable version available, hence all |
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> Exim users are advised to either upgrade to an unstable 4.89 Release |
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> Candidate, or patch the configuration as follows: |
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Maybe not capitalizing "release candidate". |
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> 1) in the main configuration section, add: |
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> chunking_advertise_hosts = |
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> 2) for each SMTP transport, add: |
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> hosts_try_chunking = |
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