[plug] Mail Server/Gateway (Min Specs, other feedback)

[Shayne O'Neill]

For what its worth, I replaced dovecot after the older one (cant remember)
went...... stupid in the head policy wise.... and its been an absolute
charm

set... forget.

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Shayne O'Neill. http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Leon Blackwell wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:06:54PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> > > > Others here seem to like Dovecot.
> > > Unfortunately, not in debian at all.
> >
> > Not in woody. Definitely in sarge & sid.
>
> Okay, I did miss that (somehow miss typed it with apt-cache policy).
>
> The problem is that sid is just not stable enough to use on a production
> server, and sarge's method of update results in a lack of prompt
> security fixes.  For example, subversion in sarge has known security
> issues at the moment.  The only way to resolve these issues is to
> upgrade to the version in sid -- but this is not always possible.
>
> Debian/stable is the only distribution that is predictble, stable and
> has prompt security updates.
>
> There does appear to be an unofficial backport:
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DebianStable
> points you to
> http://src.braincells.com/debian/woody/dovecot/
>
> but it is a version behind the one in testing/unstable, leaving me
> wonder how dedicated the backporters are (the only set of backports I've
> found to be really well done are the bunk-1 and bunk-2 sets).
>
>
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