On 07/07/2010 05:25 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
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).
Bla bla bla.. unrelated to postfix.
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).
More bla bla bla.. unrelated to postfix.
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.
I would suggest using a distribution or OS that allows you to configure
postfix properly.
Anything that interferes with that is not worth the effort.
Regardless, no specific distribution will be supported here.
If there are any known gotchas with specific OSes, these will be noted
in the documentation where applicable.
This will be with Dovecot as the IMAP end.
Again, utterly not postfix related.
J.
(I'll be mogadored if I can find a postfix question anywhere in there)
