Change that to "use the absolute latest version of NON BETA code
available. ie. 2.53 (i believe)"

An exploit just came out for the beta tree, dont know if they have a patch
available to fix it yet tho'...

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:44:33PM -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>> Since you're using mbox format, qpopper's probably your best bet.  There's
>> a patch on www.qmail.org for home dir mailboxes, and in ver3.0 (currently
>> in beta) it will be part of the distribution.
>
>Just and additional note: you should make abolutely sure that you use
>the latest version of qpopper. Previous versions are vulnerable to
>a buffer overflow and a exploit script has been posted to the bugtraq
>list.
>
>       \Maex
>
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