Re: Identifying used patches

Hi Kristen.

On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:15:09 -0800, Kristen wrote:
> On 3/26/16 12:52 AM, ed wrote:
>> 
>> Using John's patches will at least get you a good stable system with 
>> minimal effort.
> 
> Jens,
> 
> I will voice my support of Jim Simpson's patches. I use these alone and
> I have an almost spam free server. The system is solid and is easy to build.

John M. Simpson has done a great job on his patches - there's no doubt!
But there are more things to consider for me than 'choosing a distribution'.

I already have an effective spam control system, which I designed myself and have actively improved over the last 6 years.

There are advantages to all of the 3 major distributions:
1: John's is tested for a long time, he's a *very* experienced maintainer with good security background, it's quite stable.
2: Roberto's is tested for quite a while, he's an experienced maintainer, it has some support for IPv6 support, which might be required where I move my servers to; it has updates, that John's does not have. In addition, he tend to keep an eye on Erwin's latest work. ;)
3: Erwin's is in active development. It may not have been tested for long, but Erwin is also very experienced and has a full IPv6 support and is also 'alive' and Erwin also have a strong experience with security.

If I have to re-install, I believe the best thing I could do is to move to Erwin's s/qmail and Qsmtp.
I see s/qmail as a "new product"; new products might have some initial issues, but they're usually never major problems.
It's fairly quick and uncomplicated to update from a git-repository compared to patches.
If I (or anyone else) finds a problem, the problem will be solved at the distribution-point and there will not be a patch-on-patch problem anymore.

In my opinion, staying with John Simpson's distribution is absolutely a good choice.
He also taught me how to make a proper qmail setup (thank you for your great guides, John, they've saved months of work!)

> I know you want to repair your system first. I did send an email to the
> debian list as requested. First it was greylisted, then accepted. I am
> on some debian mail list (Debian-PPC, Debian-Women) but not the one you
> are subscribe to.

All debian lists use the same mail-bot, so I have no doubt it works. :)
(I might be rebuilding and testing my qmail tonight)

By the way, do you also get an auto-responder from <[email protected]> *every* time you post to the list ?
I've tried to make it turn itself off, since it seem to reply to everything with the subject intact, but unfortunately I couldn't make it confirm unsubscription.
I've also sent an email to the email associated with the domain name and to abuse@domain, but so far no response.
-If they had just subsribed to 'gcc-help', they would have realized how bad an idea it is to subscribe with an email address that is sometimes switched to an auto-responder.


Love
Jens