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Tom Brown wrote: |
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> Hey guys, |
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> I've been using gentoo on my desktop for several months now. I works |
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> great. It cut five minutes off my build time when I build our product |
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> tree. It went from 20 to 15 minutes. |
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> I setup our email server using Debian. Its been solid as a rock and very |
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> low maintenance. However, it provides an antiquated environment. |
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> I'm looking at using gentoo for the email so I'll have an up-to-date |
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> system. Peformance is fine on the Debian system, but hey, faster is |
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> always better. |
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> I was hoping you guys could give me warm fuzzies about stability and |
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> maintenance with gentoo when it comes to a production server. |
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> What about major upgrades? If I keep the system updated regularly, is a |
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> major upgrade necessary? |
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I've been running a Gentoo mail server for either work or personal use |
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and usually both since 2001. No real problems, but you do have to watch |
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some updates especially sasl and courier. |
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My current system is |
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Postfix-2.5 At minimum I'd use Postfix-2.2 which has the better syntax |
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for your virtual statements. |
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Postgrey for greylisting, had some issues with sqlgrey. |
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PostfixAdmin, because using phpmyadmin to manage your accounts and |
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domains is futile. I'm still on 2.1 and need to check out the newer |
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version. Requires PHP and a webserver. |
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courier-imap and cyrus-sasl. Thinking about moving to Dovecot since you |
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can use dovecot-sasl with Postfix under Gentoo. |
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Mysql5 |
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It's fully virtual, supports smtp and imap over ssl, sasl, skipped TLS, |
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and easy to manage. I do not recommend the Gentoo Virtual How-to, it's |
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ancient and silly. |
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I used to have a how-to on gentoo-wiki which I need to recreate. Maybe |
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this weekend. |
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In regards to stability... don't update right away. When Postfix 2.6 |
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comes out, give it a month. Or play with it in a virtual server. Same |
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with Mysql 5.1. Or whatever. I've run three separate companies on Gentoo |
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and never had much of an issue though I always had a test/stage/qa |
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environment of some sort. Also keep an eye on the forums and this mail |
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list. That'll usually give you a heads up when an update isn't quite right. |
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kashani |
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