Sorry if I restart a conversation that may have occured before I joined, but looking at Soren's news tasks at http://people.ubuntu.com/~soren/new-tasks/ a few questions came to my mind :
Short term : a/ is there a good reason why spamd and clamd (or other similar tools) are not part of the mail server task at this point ? I can barely imagine someone running a mail server nowdays without some kind of anti spam/anti virus nowdays... b/ what is the reasoning behind including mutt and no webmail ? I know that 90% of our target users will never read their mail from the console... Roundcube has been mentionned yesterday on IRC but I have been running it for a little while and think it is a bit too young just yet. Would rather recommend squirelmail. c/ for all data including tasks, could we detail a bit more what we are planing to include as base config ? I beleive that base config should allow a total newbie to run the server without further configuration other than account creation. For example : - do we plan to add some rbl checking to postfix by default ? - do we configure ntp by default ? - do we run some hot in place backup procedure by default ? Mid term : a/ what would it take to prepare these tasks so that they could be configured against an LDAP directory for account maintenance and authentication on a conditional basis ? This is particularly important for samba, which, AFAIK, would otherwise maintain a separate password than the other services b/ what's our policy on manual configuration changes to tasks ? Do we allow them and still pretend that we will be able to always do a seemless upgrade later on ? Again, sorry if I am restarting old discussion, but would definitely appreciate if one could bring some light on this for me. Thanks, Nick
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