On 17/08/2009 17:01, Guy wrote:
Hi,
I'm using Postfix 2.5.5 with Amavis/CLAM. Also looking at adding
SpamAssassin in the near future. I've also got Postfix Policyd V2 on
my gateways.
I've currently got this all running on Ubuntu (Hardy 8.04) and it's
been fine so far.
I have had one or two problems along the way, not with Postfix itself,
but things like NFS at one stage (mail stores are on NFS mounts) so
I'm considering moving away from Ubuntu as and when servers get
replaced by newer hardware. This may be in the next 6 to 12 months as
our current hardware is nearing it's limits.
I'm considering FreeBSD as an alternative, but I was wondering what
people think of FreeBSD as a platform for Postfix. It's obviously not
as easy to maintain as Ubuntu, but it does have a reputation for
stability. Any thoughts, recommendations or experiences would be
appreciated.
FreeBSD is an excellent platform to run Postfix on and I think it's
probably as easy to maintain as Ubuntu for the common cases and you'll
find the NFS implementation on FreeBSD very good, although you should
probably expect to do a little tuning if you have a FreeBSD server
and Linux clients. FreeBSD as a client is quite good, but the NFS
server implementation is probably more important in your case.
- Mark
