Upgrading MailScanner to latest and greats with Postfix

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 12:52:06 IST 2006


On 18/10/06, Drew Marshall <drew at technologytiger.net> wrote:
> On Wed, October 18, 2006 09:43, Peter Russell wrote:
> >>
> >> In a word, no. In slightly more verbose, nope :-)
> >>
> >> I am awaiting a future release that is supposed to implement message
> >> body amendment via milter that is supposed to break everything from the
> >> microwave to MailScanner but you are safe for the time being.
> >>
> >> Assuming you have installed from port just portupgrade Postfix and
> >> rebuild from the port (cd /usr/ports/mail/mailscanner make && make
> >> deinstall && make install) MailScanner will see you good to go and
> >> preserve your configs. Diff the new MailScanner.conf from the old one,
> >> change as required and you are back up and running in 20 minutes.
> >
> > I am still running 2.1.5 - i think i need to upgrade to 2.3 - my
> > mailscanner is up to date. I cant keep up with the changes of postfix -
> > is something broken in the latest version i should steer clear of? To
> > upgrade from source, run the normal sopurce installs and keep a backup
> > of my main.cf - my transport, recipient, access, relay_domain maps will
> > continue to work fine?
>
> No, nothing broken. It works just fine. Yup, just keep copies of your
> configs and lob them back in. Start Postfix and tail your maillog. There
> are a couple of changes particularly under smtpd_ options. They are pretty
> minor and I can't remember exactly but your logs will certainly tell you.
> Just look up the correct syntax option here
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html
>
> Drew
>
Wasn't there a queue depth default change between 2.1 and 2.2? I have
this vague recollection of perhaps needing to tweak some odd setting
there...:-)

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