[CentOS] Re: Postfix smtp freezing

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.