hi Guy >In recent years I installed Ubuntu Linux for setting up some server, some >such I can't remember why anyway, but I found Ubuntu to be surprisingly >clunky compared to my prior experience on UNIX.
The best linux distro is the one that you know inside out. I recently had another look at "real" unix (freebsd) and found it pretty trying compared to debian/devuan, which I'm used to. >I suppose what the tech guys are saying is that corporate interests and >monopolies made email difficult for us "small concerns". As a crude summary (I follow LWN) they're saying it's too much trouble to be worth it. I totally disagree with that; it is a lot of fiddling to set up and if you don't get it right you will lose mail and mail you send won't get to an inbox. Once it's setup, with plenty of attention to firewalling, it just goes along. >Windows is a good >'client' system? There is only about half the planet using it. I would be >happy to chuck it though somehow. I agree that half the planet had it foisted on them and don't know any different. >PS: I will 'research' exim4. Please don't run off with the idea I recommended that, especially on a James list! As I like to say, "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't" *ALL* mail exchangers are dragons IMO; I've gradually built up so much exim4 experience that I can't ditch it. If I set out on an email journey from scratch in another life, I doubt I would choose exim4 again. I hope the good folk here don't mind me admitting that I might not choose James either. I definitely would not choose sendmail :-) -- David Matthews m...@dmatthews.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
