Re: Re: Postfix smtp freezing

[Jason Ross <jross@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am currently running
Centos 4.3
postfix-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.2
mailscanner-4.57.6-1

The problem is I'm not yet smart enough to patch it quickly.

But would patching it fix the issue or create more???

If so how would I roll back quickly?



Scott Silva wrote:

Jason Ross spake the following on 8/9/2007 3:36 PM:
  

No I have not. We are a small company and the owner freaks out when it
comes to any down time of email so I have just maintained the original
install.
No updates.
    

Can you give some more details, like OS type/version, postfix version,
MailScanner version, ETC. Probably many security holes if it has been sitting
un-patched for 8 months.
I think the owner would freak out more if his server gets rootkitted because
of some unpatched security hole, don't you think?

I patch running mail servers all the time, the downtime is usually only
minutes, and if it is that busy, a remote ssh session will let you do it later
in the evening.
  

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Jason Ross
Technical Operations Analyst
MedVoice International, LLC
Tel: 480-481-9292
Toll Free: 800-720-1151
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