From 4f2d7949f03e1c198bc888f2d05f421d35c57e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: V3n3RiX Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:53:29 +0100 Subject: reinit the tree, so we can have metadata --- .../2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt.asc | 6 +++++ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt create mode 100644 metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt.asc (limited to 'metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug') diff --git a/metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt b/metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7212f5861d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Title: =mail-mta/exim-4.88 problem with chunking +Author: Fabian Groffen +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2017-03-01 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: =mail-mta/exim-4.88 + +Exim maintainers discovered that version 4.88 has some serious problems +with its CHUNKING extension. To quote: + + There are various known problems which can result in messages stuck in + queues and remote servers dropping connections on larger mails. + +In Gentoo, Exim 4.88 is the only stable version available, hence all +Exim users are advised to either upgrade to an unstable 4.89 release +candidate, or patch the configuration as follows: + +1) in the main configuration section, add: + + chunking_advertise_hosts = + +2) for each SMTP transport, add: + + hosts_try_chunking = + +Please see also the announcement sent to exim-announce: +https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20170301.031117.ff024aa8.en.html diff --git a/metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt.asc b/metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt.asc new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3f86e7f31674 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug/2017-03-02-exim-chunking-bug.en.txt.asc @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- + +iEYEABEKAAYFAli3tbUACgkQX3X2B8XHTok0KwCgpXNoKwwHq6bGaF6eWHWmOfKD +POgAn1bTgP5gua8vWa2es5nptjDLg+y+ +=GGQl +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- cgit v1.2.3