Dew Ediho wrote:
This is mostly an accademic question, but one whose answer will
benefit my curious mind.
I have been running courier mta (the whole shebang but for sqwebmail)
for nearly 2 years with no major hiccups.
My implementation runs on FreeBSD 5.3 on Compaq Proliant Servers.
That in and of itself says a lot about what would be the best platform
(at least for you)... If you know FreeBSD, stick with FreeBSD.
I haven't had the benefit of running a production server in any other
environment and would like the opinion (please share your experience)
of members of this group on which you would consider to be the best
platform for Courier?
FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc
I haven't used the BSDs in quite some time but I've always felt like
they've resisted modern admin timesavers like GUI installs. They also
seem to stick with the old faithful Unix tools rather than moving on to
somewhat more user friendly and powerful GNU stuff. For example,
doesn't at least a few of the BSDs still use ash as the default shell
instead of something much more powerful like bash or equivalent? I
could be wrong on this, I haven't used a BSD in years...
Linux (all distros)
I don't think it's fair to lump all distros together here I'd break them
off into RPM based, Debian based and others. I feel RedHat based RPM
distros are best for Courier. Sam develops on FC4 I believe. Once
you've done the rpmbuild process a few times upgrades tend to take less
than 5 minutes of admin time. Debian ships Courier but it's an old
version, you'll have to grab a non-official deb to get the latest, imho,
debian want to be a BSD (
Solaris?
Haven't used 10 but I understand with 8 and 9 you've got to install tons
of GNU stuff on your own just to get Courier to compile. Then you spend
your time manually compiling and installing updates, if you're gonnna go
this route, you minds well get the "coolness" of Gentoo while your at it...
HP-UX, others.
Same as Solaris afaik, the commercial Unix vendors are getting better
but IMHO, an open source platform is always going to be the best for an
open source application.
Jay
Your comments and observations will be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
PS: Thanks Mr. Sam and all other great contributors to the courier
movement!!
Wole Akpose
Heritage Network Technologies
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