ANNOUNCE: Beta 4.23-7 released

Philip Craven pcraven at LGU.AC.UK
Fri Aug 22 12:04:47 IST 2003


Julian Field wrote:

> At 10:48 22/08/2003, you wrote:
>
>> Thanks Julian - a timely response as usual, which should save one of our
>> smaller servers over the coming Bank Holiday weekend.
>>
>> Just a couple of minor points - shouldn't the new variable %org-name%
>> have been used in the Mail Header definition?
>
>
> As you have presumably upgraded, it will copy over your old settings into
> the new conf file, and add any new settings for you (and delete dead ones).
> So your previous setting for "Mail Header" will be copied into the new file
> too.
>

Yes sorry, I was of course looking at my upgraded configuration file
rather than the released one.

> Any changes I make like this can only affect new installations, there is no
> way I can tell what you have customised (and hence want to keep) and what
> you have left at the default (and might or might not want to keep). The
> upgrade_MailScanner_conf script uses no external data source at all beyond
> what is in your current and new MailScanner.conf files, which is how the
> same script can upgrade to and from any version.
>
>> Tony's new version of mcafee-autoupdate doesn't work with Solaris 8/9 -
>> it doesn't seem to like test -e on a directory.
>
>
> Do you want to drop Tony a line about that? (Or else a more obvious post to
> this list that he'll see). He might not see it buried in this post.
>
>

Will do.

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Philip Craven
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