On a sidenote (from a user perspective), 4.88 dropped some deprecated
features.
Shouldn't that have been announced aswell?
And why wasn't 4.87 kept as old stable version? Afterall there was a
4.87.1 release with no feature change but CVE fix applied.
Regards
-Sven
Am 01.03.2017 um 21:04 schrieb Matthias Maier:
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017, at 13:43 CST, Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org> wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to push out attached news item ASAP. Please review.
Looks good. Has a clear and precise structure.
Title: =mail-mta/exim-4.88 problem with chunking
Author: Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2017-03-01
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: =mail-mta/exim-4.88
Exim maintainers discovered that version 4.88 has some serious problems
with its CHUNKING extension. To quote:
There are various known problems which can result in messages stuck in
queues and remote servers dropping connections on larger mails.
In Gentoo, Exim 4.88 is the only stable version available, hence all
Exim users are advised to either upgrade to an unstable 4.89 Release
Candidate, or patch the configuration as follows:
Maybe not capitalizing "release candidate".
1) in the main configuration section, add:
chunking_advertise_hosts =
2) for each SMTP transport, add:
hosts_try_chunking =
