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Postfix Archives: Re: Postfix Maintenance?

Re: Postfix Maintenance?

Subject: Re: Postfix Maintenance?
From: Christopher Petrilli (petrilliamber.org)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 11:43:45 CST

Jeff Bacon [baconArbitrade.COM] wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:27:20AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > > But to take care for the long term aspects of my planned mail software
> > > change, it's important for me to know who's doing the further
> > > maintenance for Postfix.
> >
> > I find that people install Postfix and forget it until something
> > breaks, which is rare. I'm sure that some people are still running
> > an alpha release.
>
> That'd be us. :) we're running a version from January 1999. It
> has yet to even burp slightly; it just delivers mail, day in and
> day out, any way we want, quickly and quietly and with a small memory
> footprint. No security risks that I know of. It's occured to us that
> maybe we should upgrade, but ... why fix what ain't broken?

You know this strikes me as the way software should be, rather than having
to rush to upgrade, you do it whenever it's really NECESSARY. I upgrade
Postfix oh, say once a year, whether it needs it or not, simply to clear
out any cruft, but honestly, I doubt that's necessary.

> Thanks Wietse.

Seconded.

Chris 

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