Milter-greylist

I am building a new mail server based on OmniOS (based on Illumos 
derived from OpenSolaris).  This is to replace a Solaris 10 server 
which has successfully been running milter-greylist 4.2.2 since May 
2009.

The milter-greylist web site (http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/) 
recommends 4.4.3 as the stable version to use, but 4.5.16 is available 
for development testing ("not for production").  Unlike fine wine, 
software does not get better with time.  It seems that there is useful 
development and fixes in newer versions.

Is 4.4.3 the best to use on an OmniOS server or is another version 
proven more suitable for my situation?

The Milter library provided with OmniOS is only 32-bit so it seems 
that the Solaris file descriptor limit needs to be paid attention to 
(e.g. --enable-stdio-hack).

Thanks,

Bob
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@..., http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@... [milter-greylist]
<milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> The milter-greylist web site (http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/)
> recommends 4.4.3 as the stable version to use, but 4.5.16 is available
> for development testing ("not for production").  Unlike fine wine, 
> software does not get better with time.  It seems that there is useful
> development and fixes in newer versions.

Generally speaking, developement branches are not for production, but we
did not have ground-shaking modification on 4.5.x for a while, hence in
this particular case I would bet it is fine. 

It is probably time to start 4.6 release cycle.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

18 \u044f\u043d\u0432\u0430\u0440\u044f 2016�\u0433. 6:01:10 CET, "manu@... [milter-greylist]" <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> \u043f\u0438\u0448\u0435\u0442:
>Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@... [milter-greylist]
><milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>> The milter-greylist web site (http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/)
>> recommends 4.4.3 as the stable version to use, but 4.5.16 is
>available
>> for development testing ("not for production").  Unlike fine wine, 
>> software does not get better with time.  It seems that there is
>useful
>> development and fixes in newer versions.
>
>Generally speaking, developement branches are not for production, but
>we
>did not have ground-shaking modification on 4.5.x for a while, hence in
>this particular case I would bet it is fine. 
>
>It is probably time to start 4.6 release cycle.

Note: I use the 4.5.x branch and/since most of my changes landed there. I am not certain if there were (m)any Solaris-specific fixes for MGL though. Our relays are from Sol 8 32-bit to Sol 10 and SXCE x64. Probably there won't be many surprises on OI/OmniOS.
--
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On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Jim Klimov jimklimov@... [milter-greylist] wrote:
>> we
>> did not have ground-shaking modification on 4.5.x for a while, hence in
>> this particular case I would bet it is fine.
>>
>> It is probably time to start 4.6 release cycle.
>
> Note: I use the 4.5.x branch and/since most of my changes landed 
> there. I am not certain if there were (m)any Solaris-specific fixes 
> for MGL though. Our relays are from Sol 8 32-bit to Sol 10 and SXCE 
> x64. Probably there won't be many surprises on OI/OmniOS.

I decided to go with the latest since I am building packages from 
source code and am prepared to deal with any issues.  Yesterday I 
built an OmniOS IPS package (also using libspf2 1.2.10 with Debian 
patches) which installs and fires up but have not done any further 
testing yet.

No source changes were required to build milter-greylist 4.5.16 on 
OmniOS r151016 using GCC 5.1.

Bob
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@..., http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

Le lundi 18 janvier 2016 � 06:01 +0100, manu@...
[milter-greylist] a �crit :
>   
> Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@... [milter-greylist]
> <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> > The milter-greylist web site
> (http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/)
> > recommends 4.4.3 as the stable version to use, but 4.5.16 is
> available
> > for development testing ("not for production"). Unlike fine wine, 
> > software does not get better with time. It seems that there is
> useful
> > development and fixes in newer versions.
> 
> Generally speaking, developement branches are not for production, but
> we
> did not have ground-shaking modification on 4.5.x for a while, hence
> in
> this particular case I would bet it is fine. 
> 
> It is probably time to start 4.6 release cycle.

Yes we are waiting for 4.6.0 !


-- 
Christian P�lissier / 34419
ONERA DRI/RSC
BP72 92322 Chatillon CEDEX

Christian Pélissier Christian.Pelissier@... [milter-greylist]
<milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Yes we are waiting for 4.6.0 !

Grab 4.6alpha1 first! :-)

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@netbsd.org