On Thu, 8 Jun 2023, Antonio Leding wrote:
Just curious - the first thing the hit me was “27 or so year-old…”
Fedora was released 19 years ago and Dovecot 20 — what am I missing? And are
you saying this box has been unchanged since ’03?
Hi Antonio,
I had a lot of that in the eamil and the on a proof-read realized it was
FAR too long, so I cut out what you're asking about! -ugh- But since you
seem to be a historian, I'll indulge a little:
...We really started with a couple of old Sun SPARC "pizza boxes", a DEC
Alpha, and a few also-rans of the early '90s. ... I could get "into the
weeds" about the OS choices of the day, but as soon as it was available we
installed the very first version of Red Hat - paid for the disk! ...
It was 10-BaseT, DSL / T1 networking - And getting a domain name? PAIN
IN THE ASS! ...
We transitioned from Red Hat to Fedora as just "inertia." I barely noticed
the difference - marketing / packaging in my view.
The site has undergone continuous maintenance, of course. Hardware ages
out, software too, sometimes, etc. (and even people) Today we're mostly on
Fedora Server with a mix of SuperMicro and oth.... but I digress...
As for pre-Dovecot? I seem to recall that from mid '99 or so we were on
Courier, but most of us didn't use it because we had accounts on the
"local" boxes and could just login and who needs IMAP? But, we had some
need for it, mostly due to people who were less sophisticated - at least
that's my view. I suppose there were other motivations.
I honestly don't recall exactly why we switched to Dovecot, but I suspect
it was due to an early adopter who was helping with our systems at the
time. I've got some leftover config files dating from '04 so it goes back
at least that far. We traded off hosting hardware with the guy I'm talking
about - he had hardware at our site and we had one or more boxes at his
site, which helps reliability, etc...
Anyway, thanks for the trip down Memory Lane. But can you lend ANY advice
here?
Thanks,
Richard
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