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Re: ihave and server upgrades

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Wed, 21 January 2009 15:52 UTC

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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:44:59 -0500
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Aaron Stone <aaron@serendipity.cx>
cc: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>, ietf-mta-filters@imc.org
Subject: Re: ihave and server upgrades
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List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:ietf-mta-filters-request@imc.org?body=unsubscribe> Hi Aaron, 

--On January 21, 2009 7:37:46 AM -0800 Aaron Stone <aaron@serendipity.cx> 
wrote:

>> Or when you upgrade a server, the server ought to have a "sieve lint"
>> tool  that can scan all existing scripts (as would happen during an
>> upload a  script) and report problems that the admin can take action on.
>
> I don't think that's realistic -- some extensions can be implemented
> entirely by the interpreter, with no need for any other part of the mail
> system to get involved. So if the interpreter (a shared library, let's
> say) is upgraded, there's no good way to inform the mail system what
> changed and to run a lint process.

Well the system administrator better read the release notes and those 
better say that the interpreter was changed significantly and that all 
existing scripts should be checked. An admin blindly doing upgrades without 
checking release notes/instructions is asking for trouble...

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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