Trouble-free steps to upgrade mailscanner?

[Julian Field]

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Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 17:54:00 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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>> I don't advise using any of the 4.53 releases, there have been problems 
>> this month. I will put out a new "beta" of 4.54 very soon (possibly 
>> next, right now) that will contain all the fixes for the bits I got 
>> wrong in 4.53.
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> This makes me a little nervous.  Are there some trusted 4.52 releases by
> any chance?  Or do they have security issues?
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Yes, sorry about that. But I thought it would be better to be absolutely 
straight with you. 4.52 was fine, the last release of that was 4.52.2-1. 
You should be able to deduce the URL of them :-)
No security issues that I am aware of, no. Check the ChangeLog on the 
website, it's linked to from most of the entries in the "News" section 
of the homepage.
>> What operating system are you using?
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> This one's Solaris, but we use MailScanner here on a variety of OSes.
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>> If you aren't using the Linux distributions of MailScanner, then as 
>> someone else has already said, you should put it somewhere like 
>> /opt/MailScanner-x.xx.x (where x.xx.x is the version number) and use a 
>> soft-link from /opt/MailScanner to the version number. This means that 
>> you can set it all up in its real location, test all the cron jobs and 
>> all that sort of stuff. Then switch on Archive Mail in the new version, 
>> stop it, set the link up to point to the new version, start it and then 
>> watch it. If it goes bad, just stop it, put the link back, start the old 
>> version again.
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> This is great info.
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>> I'll put out a beta right now for you.
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> Thanks!
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