Error after postfix upgrade

[Scott Silva]

on 10/31/2007 8:24 AM Rick Emery spake the following:
> Quoting Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> 
>> Upgrade your MailScanner (I'll be releasing a new version tomorrow
>> morning, so wait until then). This code is commented out in the latest
>> version, it has been re-implemented differently.
> 
> Here's the (admittedly stupid) thing I did to get email working again.
> 
> I downloaded the latest version of MailScanner and compared the 
> Postfix.pm file.  There's a comment there that specifically addresses 
> this situation, so I checked the other differences and decided to just 
> copy the new Postfix.pm file over the old one. Mail is working, though I 
> get some different errors that I've worked around.
> 
> I was trying to stay within Ubuntu's package management. I knew I 
> wouldn't have the latest and greatest code, but I at least thought they 
> wouldn't upgrade a package without upgrading other related packages (or 
> at least keeping them compatible). Obviously, I was wrong.
> 
> The "right" thing to do would probably be to remove the MailScanner 
> package and install from the latest tarball from the MailScanner site, 
> but I had really hoped to stick with the distribution's package manager :-(
> 
> Thanks, everybody, for the tips.
> 
> Rick
That is the main catch to package managed systems. Somebody has to build and 
host the packages.

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You hope everybody uses it, and
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