On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 08:30, Jeroen Geilman <jer...@adaptr.nl> wrote:
> 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. What you are suggesting is a level of distribution knowledge beyond what an administrator-user would normally know. The level needed for this would be distribution package maintainer level. I'm not a distribution package maintainer and do not feel I need to become that. This is strictly an interaction issue between component A and component B ... where in this case one of them is Postfix. And what I asked about was multiple instances of the component that is not Postfix, which means Postfix is the common element across all relations in the map. > 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. So I'll take your answer to my question as "I suggest Ubuntu which has worked fine for me". > I did not see any background information related to postfix. Background is for perspective. You should read it as such. > 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. Suggest another distribution-agnostic mailing list or forum for asking what amounts to "which is the best distro for Postfix to run on with the least troubles". That can't be a distribution-specific mailing list or forum. > 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. Realities are that distributions do differ, sometimes nearly as much as BSD vs. Linux vs. Solaris, etc. > No, dovecot is an IMAP server with SASL capabilities. > Neither involve postfix directly. When they fail to work together, tell me specifically which is at fault. Or maybe you expect the poster to figure out the problem before asking. > 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. I take it you believe that when asking about the relationship between component A and component B, one should never assume that it is ever specific to either component A or component B, which then leaves one in a gap where no one in component A or component B support cares to answer (if they are like you are). So what was my question specific to, if not Postfix? It certainly was not specific to any distro. Postfix was the common element. -- sHiFt HaPpEnS!
