On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Wietse:
> > I had a similar patch that I was going to post 30 mins ago when
> > someone walked into my room:
>
> Victor:
> > OK, we are on the same page then.
>
> George Forman:
> > I've made the change to my local code base. Will this change make
> > it into a 2.7.x release or 2.8?
>
> It is in Postfix 2.8. I haven't decided if this will be back-ported.
> If I back-port every fix to every supported release then I would
> not get work done.
>
> This fix is needed for a buggy client that fails to disconnect
> after Postfix replies to RSET with an error status. It is unlikely
> that OS distributions will pick it up even if I go through the
> effort of back-porting and testing.
That said, if you were feeling very generous, we've had a 2.7.2-RC2 in
the wings for a while. The change to not send 503, when we really mean
"421" is fairly safe. I would not object to inclusion in 2.7.2, (I don't
think we need to go back to 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6).
--
Viktor.
