[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Wed Dec 7 17:37:06 UTC 2005
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>:
>
>> 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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