On 07/07/2010 08:02 PM, Phil Howard wrote:
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:48, Jeroen Geilman<jer...@adaptr.nl> wrote:
I would suggest using a distribution or OS that allows you to configure
postfix properly.
Name it.
Okay, I may have been baiting a bit there.
The obvious inference is that you need to know your distro in order to
be able to do anything useful with it.
If that causes issues, that distribution's support is your first port of
call, NOT a distribution-agnostic support list.
If you have sufficient knowledge of your chosen distribution, postfix
works fine on any distro.
Anything that interferes with that is not worth the effort.
Which do you use?
I use Ubuntu; I like the packaging methodology, and it saves me time
with respect to upgrades and dependencies.
However, I do not use any dpkg configuration that comes with it.
I read the *postfix* documentation for any issues I have, and I don't
demand that the postfix documentation offers fill-in-the-blanks
solutions for issues raised by the distribution I use.
Regardless, no specific distribution will be supported here.
Maybe if you had read the background information instead of going bla
bla bla you would have understood what the purpose of all this is.
Who better to know what OS/distro works better with Postfix that those
who actually use it?
I did not see any background information related to postfix.
Perhaps if you, instead, had asked a postfix-related question, such as a
specific issue you were having, then it could be answered in a
distribution-agnostic way.
If there are any known gotchas with specific OSes, these will be noted in
the documentation where applicable.
Does that include things like easier to maintain Postfix? ... doesn't
interfere with Postfix? How about a summary?
No, it includes specific incompatibilties or things you might need to be
aware of.
Note that for the purposes of such documentation, "Linux" is one OS.
This will be with Dovecot as the IMAP end.
Again, utterly not postfix related.
Actually, it is related. But apparently you probably figure that if
anything involves 2 or more pieces of software, it's only related to
the other pieces (whichever they happen to be).
No, dovecot is an IMAP server with SASL capabilities.
Neither involve postfix directly.
(I'll be mogadored if I can find a postfix question anywhere in there)
Why did you bother responding if you have such a narrow view that you
cannot see it? Do you actually like to show off how arrogant you can
be?
There was, simply, no postfix-specific question in your post.
I could replace every mention of the word "postfix" with "emacs", and it
would come out exactly the same.
J.
