On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 15:13:00 Phil Howard wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 15:00, Scott Kitterman <post...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 14:42:29 Phil Howard wrote: > >> Ubuntu works reasonably OK with everything else I've used on it. > >> Problem exist with Postfix on it. They've said to address it with > >> Postfix. I personally think the specific problems are more of how > >> Ubuntu handles Postfix poorly. One issue (which may be part of the > >> problem) is the Postfix package in Ubuntu being an older one. > > > > No. It really doesn't. If you don't understand how to use your distro > > package management system, you should seek help in a distro specific > > venue. > > BTDT. They say it's not a distro specific issue. I don't know if I > agree with them or not. But I am considering abandoning that distro. > If Postfix people's experience was that the distro does not have such > issues with Postfix, then it might be worthwhile pursuing that issue > with them (the distro people) further. Quite possibly it is the > person who makes the Postfix package not doing thing right with > respect to either Postfix and/or Ubuntu. > > But I might also seek another distro. It has already been said here > that I should run the latest version of Postfix. That would be > compiling from source since the latest is not packaged in the distro. > In general, that's not a problem. But it is to a certain degree a > problem in some distros (and why this is, certainly is not a Postfix > issue ... I have experienced the problem with other than Postfix). > I'm just saying that so you know why I'm also looking away from Ubuntu > (please do not assume I am asking you to fix those Ubuntu issues). > > How about simply, which distro various Postfix users are running?
Who is "They" and what exactly is the issue? In addition to running a number of mail servers with Postfix on Ubuntu, I'm also an Ubuntu developer and I can look into it. Scott K
