Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
RPM version of MIMEdefang mimedefang-2.57-4.fc5.*.rpm showed in Fedora Extras 5 repository. This means that it will be automatically updated by nightly yum update if mimedefang was installed from RPM.This version does not have any antivirus functionality compiled in. So this may make your system less secure. If you use any antivirus and mimedefang rpm you'd better disable it's automatic updates by adding: exclude=mimedefang to your "/etc/yum.conf".
If the package is at all properly set up, /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter should be a config file, and so will not be replaced on upgrades. The new mimedefang-filter will instead be created as mimedefang-filter.rpmnew.
IMO, anyone blindly doing automatic updates on a server is asking for trouble anyway.
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