You know what? I really hate it when people say things like this. It's all bluff and
blunder - "Well, I'm not using that, so whatever you're using must obviously suck,
because everyone knows my way is the best
way!" Gimme a break...
The OS has been just fine in regards to stability ... far more than the old RH server
in the other office in fact. (I'm not bashing RH, either - I've had some very good
experiences with it.) I'd like to point out,
though, that the OS, IMHO, is not the problem. Not even remotely. Even with my
managing to do some pretty stupid stuff on that machine, it was up for thirty-two days
(after powering down to install a shiny new
100mb NIC) when monsoons hit and knocked out the power to half the building.
FWIW, at least in this instance, Drake didn't install with *any* MTA, though there was
an RPM for Sendmail with the "extra stuff." And, well, I hate sendmail with a seething
passion. I don't care if other people
use it, and I think it's great that there's some people here who've gotten it to work
with a great deal of success, and someday I may ask them how they did it.... but I
ain't volunteerin' to put it on anything I
have to administer. :-)
I chose to set up qmail because that's what I know. It works, it's tidy, it's secure,
and frankly, if it didn't work with Mailman, I would think that would have been
mentioned in the same place where it says
Sendmail is not the best of ideas for use with Mailman.
If you would like to drive to Southern Arizona and set up Postfix, be my guest. I know
next to nothing about Postfix - no, actually, I know nothing about Postfix - and so I
have no objections to it other than the
fact that I do not have time to learn to administer another MTA right now. So after
you set it up, you'll have to hang around for a few weeks until I can devote some time
to learning how to manage it. But if you're
willing to do all of that just so you can prove that yours is bigger than mine, I'll
send you directions.
=)
Amanda
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote:
> Amanda,
>
> Why are you running Mandrake 8? That IMHO is bleeding edge, and not stable for a
>production server. I run 7.1, which I think is their last "stable" release. 7.2 had
>some bizzare library compilation problems.
>
> I believe Mandrake defaults to Postfix for a mail transport, which works very nicely
>with Mailman. You might want to give it a try.
>
> Bob
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