On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:39:06 -0500 John Peach <post...@johnpeach.com> wrote: >On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:30:36 +0200 >Eero Volotinen <eero.voloti...@iki.fi> wrote: > >> >> > Centos 5.4 - while it looks like a good choice, there has been some >> > political infighting going on recently which makes us a little >> > nervous about its future. In addition we have found that a number >> > of the core packages we wish to use are out of date (postfix, >> > dovecot, amavisd-new among them). >> >> Centos 5.x is my selection. You can also use packages from epel and >> dag's rpm repositories. > >It suffers from Red Hat's liking for sendmail. The postfix package is >aeons old. I would go with Ubuntu (probably 9.04 which is a long-term >support version).
It's actually 8.04 that's LTS. The next release (10.04) will be also LTS (5 years). I am in favor of Ubuntu Server for Postfix related uses. Postfix is the standard MTA, so it's use is well documented, pretty much everything you might want to add on to Postfix is packaged so there's no need to hunt down external repositories, and it benifits both from Debian's strong package management system and well maintained Postfix package. Scott K
