[Dovecot] Disconnected: Too many invalid IMAP commands

[Matthias Andree]

Am 18.09.2009, 16:57 Uhr, schrieb Charles Marcus  
<CMarcus at media-brokers.com>:

> On 9/18/2009, Matthias Andree (matthias.andree at gmx.de) wrote:
>> Ubuntu 8.04 is a long-term support release (desktop three years, server  
>> five
>> years), and it's natural that users will use that.
>
> It is also natural that critical servers should always be running the
> latest stable release of critical applications, of course after a short
> but suitable internal testing cycle...
>
> I have never understood anyone who would use a distro for critical
> applications that forces them to use 3+ year old software.

POLA - principle of least astonishment. You cannot possibly oversee what  
breaks for a gazillion of users if you update. It's not as though the  
dovecot branches had strictly been regression-fixes only (as GCC is, for  
instance).

-- 
Matthias Andree