On 25/01/2013 3:07 PM, Jeff Bernier wrote:
Hello All,
I am currently running Mailman (2.1.14) and Postfix (2.4.3) on an
aging Mac OS X server (10.5.8). Mailman and Postfix on this system are
Apple's implementation on their platform of course. Apple no longer
supports the Xserve platform, and I am in need of replacing this
system, and upgrading to newer versions of Postfix and Mailman.
As has been said elsewhere not really that surprising. The flavour of
the day is "/the cloud/"!
We use Postfix for our on campus SMTP Gateway, and Mailman for a small
number of active lists. The traffic is light.
Can anyone recommend a good replacement to this? Recommended
Unix/Linux? Is a VM environment an option?
I run a couple of servers for a small business co-op one Debian Wheezy
and one Ubuntu (currently 12.04 LTS).
Both run mail servers( Postfix+Dovecot+Amavis-new), WEB servers (HTTP,
webdav, davical) plus a few odds and ends without breaking a sweat.
The Debian machine ran Centos 5 until approx a 18 months ago.
Both machines have been running for about 4 years without any unplanned
outages (Not quite true we had a power outage that lasted 4 hours and
the UPSs shutdown).
I would like to get away from the Mac solution, and set up some flavor
of Unix with more current versions of Postfix and Mailman. I know this
is a very broad question, but I have a blank canvas here... just
looking for a direction to go in.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Go with Debian, I use Testing (wheezy) but any level would be good. Te
only, very minor, problem is that Debian prefers Exim as the MTA because
of the Postfix license (IBM vs GPL), but it is supported and I have not
seen any plans to drop it.
Ubuntu would be a good alternative, except that they seem to be pushing
their cloud solution.
