Milter-greylist

Bill Levering wrote:
 > Before anyone has issues with 4.7, let me state that a moderate size  
 > ISP (of 400 servers) runs all their servers on this platform.

Not a good idea.  4.7 was released four years ago, and it's
not officially supported anymore, which means that you won't
get security advisories and patches.  For example, I bet
that those servers contain the OpenSSL vulnerability that
was discovered recently.

At the very least, I recommend to update to 4-stable which
is officially supported til the end of January 2007.  The
aforementioned OpenSSL bug is fixed in 4-stable.

 > They are working on upgrading to FBSD6 (which became stable last  
 > November), and as we all know how FBSD5 was a great success...

The problem was that the step between 4 and 5 was too big,
which caused nightmares for QA.  Personally I have skipped
FreeBSD 5 alltogether and re-installed most of them with
FreeBSD 6 (only a few are remaining with 4-stable, but they
will be updated soon, too).

Your problem with compiling milter_greylist might well be
caused by your obsolete FreeBSD version, because it has a
very old compiler (gcc 2.95.4, which was already obsolete
when FreeBSD 4.7 was released) and old include files.
If you cannot update your FreeBSD version right now, it
might be worth a try to install a more recent Compiler from
the Ports collection, e.g. gcc3.

Best regards
   Oliver

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