Roxanne Sandesara wrote:
Is it time to back up the mailboxes and wipe the machine, rebuild from
scratch? I need an answer, as I have a deadline approaching by which I
must move our mail services from an off-site mail server that is
running currently to an on-site mail server - the one I have been
trying to build and get running.
why cling to fedora 5 for the install if you don't have to? will you
re-build in another 4-5 months they will release fc6?
if this is a dedicated mailserver box/blade, why not use centos? as i
believe the developers all use that distribution. there is an inferred
(by me) guarantee that if i use the platform they develop/work on, the
packages they produce will work flawlessly (which they have). yes they
support other distributions, but i took the path of least resistance.
centos is enterprise-grade and binary-compatible with the 800-pound
gorilla, rhel4. (the box will be supported for a long time, and rebuilds
will not be required ever 6 months. all provided software is stable and
secure enough for rh, who am i to argue? seems like a no-brainer.) i
am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a linux or email guru---but
install-to-configure-to-production in 4 hours on the first attempt
speaks volumes as to the quality of software and integration provided by
the toaster team. i did the easy install with kde as my security
gui-blanket.
fc5 is a quality distribution, fine for a desktop or workstation...maybe
even for a server (i know people use it as such). but the point of
having a server (mail or otherwise) is stability and security. you get
both of those for the cost of a download of centos 4.3 (they will accept
donations). and hey, it's even red-hat'ish.
my .02
david
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