On Tuesday 12 March 2002 12:56, Anthony Symons wrote: > BTW I run a mandrake virus scanning mailserver based on 8.0 here. Its > medium sized, handling approx 15,000 mails per week. It worked the day > they plugged it in, and it has been up and not skipped a beat since. The > exchange server however has crapped out majorly about 4 times. There are > a lot of people who want redhat because its the norm, but they cant > justify the swap as long as there hasnt been a single problem with the > mandrake box :) I belive quaily is more important ahead of anything > else.
I have a Mandrake (8.1) mailserver, nothing like 15kMails/day but scans viruses using Sophos managed by AMaViS, competing with RedHat in a pigeon pair of companies. SendMail under Redhat, although listening on port 25, was no accepting mail from the LAN today. PostFix under Mandrake has never blinked. The reason I got the job in the first place was because of another (then 8.0, now 8.1) Mandrake server (still not 15kMails/day but scores of websites as well, and firewall/proxy for a dozen public-access screens, SaMBa and NFS server, jukebox (no, I'm not kidding, the keyboard cable runs through a wall and people select songs on it, blind, from outside) and scores more DNS zones, SMS relay, mailing lists, yadda yadda - name it, it runs here) which has never blipped despite considerable abuse (power losses etc). I also have servers replacing Exchange, and their big feature, from the POV of their owners, is that they've forgotten that the mail servers exist. It must be said in all fairness that the vast majority of buggy/unstable stuff that I've had problems with are not services but applications, and mostly X applications. And also that, bugs or no, Mandrake (even 8.1) doesn't (yet, and may it never) have Windows' habit of changing (ie breaking) things spontaneously. Cheers; Leon
