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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 <grobian@gentoo.org> +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 |