I am finally putting together a test mail server (something I wish I had when putting together the first mail server, but lack of hardware due to lack of funding flow limited that). But now I have another machine.
But I am still seeing all the issues I had before with Ubuntu. At first I tried to install an identical Ubuntu system as before (based on 9.10 because that was current at the time of the first mail server). Most of the issues are related to packaging (for example, cannot uninstall a package because one of the config files it's trying to delete does not exist ... touched it to make it exist and then it happily removes the package). Anyway ... I am considering expediting a switch to another distribution. Or maybe just the latest version of Ubuntu. Personally, I favor Slackware, since it is friendlier to installing packages from upstream source (so I have the latest version). But I will need to make a justification to management to add Slackware to our mix (which is currently Centos, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu). I want to get away from "hand holding" distribution packaging systems ... too many bruises on my hands from that. What I'd like to find out is what are known issues Postfix has with these or other distributions (even if, and especially if, the distribution itself is the cause of the issue). Also, does anyone know a general rough estimate of the proportions of existing distribution deployments to host Postfix? What distributions do the heavier Postfix admins use? FYI, BSD is not ruled out, either. This will be with Dovecot as the IMAP end. -- sHiFt HaPpEnS!
