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On a sidenote (from a user perspective), 4.88 dropped some deprecated |
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features. |
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Shouldn't that have been announced aswell? |
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And why wasn't 4.87 kept as old stable version? Afterall there was a |
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4.87.1 release with no feature change but CVE fix applied. |
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Regards |
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-Sven |
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Am 01.03.2017 um 21:04 schrieb Matthias Maier: |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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>> 1) in the main configuration section, add: |
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>> |
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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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