Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

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Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting Feizhou <feizhou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> I'd just like to say that some, if not most, of the 'out of band' 
>> solutions don't need upgrading.
> 
> 
> "Out of band" solutions need upgrading about the same as the solutions 
> already
> packaged in the distribution.  The only difference, there's nobody to track
> what was fixed and how important it is if you use something outside of
> distribution.  For each update of Cyrus package, there'll be an errata
> explaining how important the update is and what might happen if you 
> don't apply
> it.  For Courier, you'll have to parse through ChangLog file and attempt to
> figure out if that "file descriptor leak" that was fixed on November 21 
> is just
> a minor issue, something that will make your server stop working after 
> couple of
> weeks, a possibility of DoS attack against your server, will somebody be 
> able to
> break into your machine if you don't fix it, and so on, and so forth.

qmail does not. period. ok, postfix does. fine.

> 
> I've nothing against Courier.  It is a nice piece of software.  Cyrus 
> too is a
> nice piece of software.


Oh goodie. what happened to dovecot?

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