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From: LuKreme on 23 Mar 2010 20:40
On 23-Mar-2010, at 12:27, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Kaleb Hosie <khosie(a)spectraaluminum.com
> > wrote:
>> I am running CentOS 5.4 and the latest version of Postfix it has on
>> the repository is version 2.3.3. After looking at the Postfix site
>> I found out that that version is no longer updated.
>>
>> Is it worth downloading the source code for the latest stable
>> version and manually compile and install it? Or is it worth
>> sticking with the version the repository has? Thanks
>
> I recommend staying with your distributions maintainers version. Like
> noted before me, unless there's a huge requirement for a feature not
> available in RHEL / CentOS's version...just keep using what you have.
> Simon Mudd's is also someone who dedicates a lot of time into his
> RPM's however I have never tested them and don't know what happens in
> regards to future patches and how Yum handles this.

Only thing I would add is that if you are running SpamAssassin, update
it regardless.

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