https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888308
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888308#c12
Annette Jäkel changed:
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--- Comment #12 from Annette Jäkel 2014-08-19 11:01:42 UTC ---
Unfortunately the file report is not the only issue. As I wrote in my first
comment a further issue is, that my mailserver with SLES 11 (PL 1) can not use
the .vacation.db from OpenSuSE-13.1 anymore. It has installed a libgdbm3
library and even if I change the magic file on the server (ignoring further
difficulties I run into if some other services on the server use
gdbm-libraries) - the vacation package works with the gdbm3 routines. Any mail
to an e-Mail address with configured and active vacation initialized from an
OpenSuSE-13.1 computer returns an error message of type "554 unknown mailer
error 1".
Certainly: If gdbm changes its data format from version 3 to 4, this behaviour
is not categorical a bug in OpenSuSE-13.1 - but a strategical drawback if we
update our computers regularly because of the end of the patch-lifecycle of
older OpenSuSE versions.
For security reasons I restrict direct access to my mailserver. If the
.vacation.db from the OpenSuSE-Installations (most of our personal computers in
offices) is not usable anymore, I have to open the firewall, have to enable
some kind of ssh-connection from any user to perform the "vacation -i" on the
mailserver itself. That seems to me as I go some steps backwards in security.
Maybe the next option will be updating the mailserver. But its not so easily to
upgrade the running mail service from one day to another. And even if SLES 11
PL3 or 4 contain a libgdbm4 library: Unfortunately our department decides to
change from SLES to an Open Source solution for the mailserver OS for financial
reasons. So my next mailserver will be an Scientific Linux Server. Alas the
recent Version 6.5 also uses a libgdbm3 library.
What with some kind of backward compatibility of the gdbm library?
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