[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.18 for RHEL 5

[Bill Cole]

On 17 Feb 2020, at 5:27, Dennis Putnam wrote:

> On 2/16/2020 11:45 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Dennis Putnam writes:
>>
>>> Since migrating to mailman 3 on the latest RHEL is going to take 
>>> some
>>> time, I need an interim solution to DMARC mitigation. I understand
>>> version 2.1.18
>>
>> Why 2.1.18?  Do you have that already installed?  It's already pretty
>> old, and many of the fixes still being made are security-related.
> It turns out that the only version available for RHEL 7 is 2.1.12.
> However, the mailman documentation indicates that also has DMARC
> mitigation. Anyway, I am giving it a try. Seems silly that RHEL
> repositories are so far behind the curve.

RedHat has a policy of nailing down nominal versions of software with 
each major RHEL release and then backporting whatever fixes they deem 
important into their packages over the life of the major release, adding 
their own subordinate versioning. I know from working on the 
SpamAssassin security team that RH is particularly attentive to security 
issues and other major bugfixes.

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