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?