sendmail local daemon mode (PSARC 2008/298)

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:11:47PM -0700, John Beck wrote:
> Ceri> It did require admins to be aware of it though; how will the change
> Ceri> be communicated?
> 
> For Nevada and its kin: probably a release note, plus the heads-up that I
> will send when I do the putback.  For S10: I'll have to work that out with
> whoever does the back-port; we will use whatever the appropriate mechanisms
> are.
> 
> 
> Ceri> Will existing local.cf files get removed by a patch or similar?
> 
> On an upgrade: Yes.  On a patchadd: I'm not sure.  Essentially there will
> be a one-time hit to migrate from manually dealing with these things to
> using the new automated method, and I will get the word out via the various
> mechanisms that we have in place for that.

OK, thanks for clarifying.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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