RE: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread lars.ringh
-Original Message- 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

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan Förster
* Guy wyldf...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Guy
Thanks for all the input. Now that I know so many people are happy with FreeBSD as a base for their Postfix machines I'll definitely be having a look at it as a possibility for the future. Thanks again. Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Mikael Bak
Stefan Förster wrote: The documentation at http://www.postfix.org/INSTALL.html#4 mentions that earlier versions of Postfix were supported on FreeBSD 2.x to 5.x. I think it's very likely that you can run recent Postfix versions on newer FreeBSD releases, too. Ack, I have FreeBSD 7.1

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Erwan David
Mikael Bak wrote: Stefan Förster wrote: The documentation at http://www.postfix.org/INSTALL.html#4 mentions that earlier versions of Postfix were supported on FreeBSD 2.x to 5.x. I think it's very likely that you can run recent Postfix versions on newer FreeBSD releases, too. Ack, I

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
* Guy wyldf...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
This is probably drifting off-topic, but I have a few questions regarding your setup... On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: 85.000 aprox. mail account here (spanish web-hosting company) using: * 25 FreeBSD 7.x as reception-only mailservers (3500 accounts per server aprox) * 3

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Blackman
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

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-17 Thread Reko Turja
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. As you still

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-17 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Guy wrote: 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

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-17 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:01, Guywyldf...@gmail.com 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

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Sahil Tandon wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Guy wrote: 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

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-17 Thread Joe
Kurt Buff wrote: I am biased, but I've long preferred FreeBSD to any flavor of Linux for ease of administration - FreeBSD simply makes more sense to me than any Linux I've ever touched. Others will differ, but that's my preference. I prefer linux, and currently use suse and ubuntu, which

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, 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. I am