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From: markus reichelt on 8 Jul 2010 15:04
* Phil Howard <ttiphil(a)gmail.com> wrote:

A single user scares you? Good heavens.

> So what was my question specific to, if not Postfix? It certainly
> was not specific to any distro. Postfix was the common element.

You are looking for the silver bullet in times when there's only a
golden child. (pardon my pun)

I really don't get WHY you don't just go with your fav distro and
configure postfix, with or without help from your distro community.
You do that and have troubles with postfix, come back here.

(...)³

I rest my case.

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From: Phil Howard on 8 Jul 2010 15:19
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 15:04, markus reichelt <ml(a)mareichelt.com> wrote:
> * Phil Howard <ttiphil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A single user scares you? Good heavens.
>
>> So what was my question specific to, if not Postfix?  It certainly
>> was not specific to any distro.  Postfix was the common element.
>
> You are looking for the silver bullet in times when there's only a
> golden child. (pardon my pun)
>
> I really don't get WHY you don't just go with your fav distro and
> configure postfix, with or without help from your distro community.
> You do that and have troubles with postfix, come back here.

I wanted to get input on it. I'm still on the fence about making that
change at work. The kind of input I was hoping was something that
indicated general ease of setup from an administrative perspective.
If the feedback with Ubuntu is that it works fine, then I'd consider
staying on it and bug the Ubuntu people about why it's goofy for some
people (yeah, yeah, maybe I did something wrong on it ... twice, now).
And maybe people are having good success compiling from source on
Ubuntu (so they are on the latest version of Postfix). But that is a
more general problem I and others have had with Ubuntu, with no
solutions ... I only mentioned it before to make it understood why I
was looking for other ways.

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From: Joe on 8 Jul 2010 15:28
Phil Howard wrote:
> I wanted to get input on it. I'm still on the fence about making that
> change at work. The kind of input I was hoping was something that
> indicated general ease of setup from an administrative perspective.
> If the feedback with Ubuntu is that it works fine, then I'd consider
> staying on it and bug the Ubuntu people about why it's goofy for some
> people (yeah, yeah, maybe I did something wrong on it ... twice, now).
> And maybe people are having good success compiling from source on
> Ubuntu (so they are on the latest version of Postfix). But that is a
> more general problem I and others have had with Ubuntu, with no
> solutions ... I only mentioned it before to make it understood why I
> was looking for other ways.
>
I hear what you're saying - but IMHO the main thing is being comfortable
with, and knowledgeable enough of whatever distro you're using.

I support SLES servers at $BIG_CO; I'm comfortable with SLES, and I make
rpms of the latest and greatest postfix to replace the outdated versions
they tend to ship. I can tell you that postfix runs beautifully on SLES.

In my own shop, and for my consulting, I work with ubuntu server for the
most part. I'm comfortable with ubuntu, and I make deb packages of the
latest and greatest postfix. Again, I can tell you that postfix runs
beautifully on ubuntu server.

Just try pick a distro you know and are comfortable with, and go with
it. Regardless, postfix is postfix.

Joe

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