MailScanner Update Frequency??

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi,

Fajar wrote:
> Hello Everyone, especially to Julian Field...
> 
> Thanks for the great mailscanner, it's really help reducing our mail server by
> spam, virus, etc. I just want to ask, why mailscanner is really fast is developing?
> Sometimes I get bored updating our mailscanner :). In scale 1-10(10 for most
> important), how important updating mailscanner installation?

That is really a decision you need to make based on your local 
conditions and needs.  I often skip a version or two, depending on what 
the changes and new features are, and how busy I am on other things.

I always check the changelog on the release of a new version and decide 
if the changes are important to my situation enough to spend the (small) 
amount of time upgrading.

The changes can be divided into two broad categories:  Bug fixes and new 
features.

If a bug fix is critical or security related or I am being affected by 
the bug, I will upgrade.  If the bug is trivial or in a section of the 
software that I don't use, then I may not.

If a new feature looks useful in my situation then I will upgrade.  If I 
don't think I need the feature or I want to think it through and plan 
its roll out, I may not.

As a general rule I try to not get more than 2-3 versions behind.



-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new 
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny....'" -- Isaac Asimov