byebye MailScanner

[Steve Campbell]

Why would anyone want to leave the MailScanner environment where we have 
such a crazy mailing list where no one is every right or wrong.

steve campbell


On 4/11/2012 9:21 AM, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> of course no-ones mentioned the *BSD's which work nicely as well.
>
> ;-)
>
> lets face it guys ain;t it nice to have a choice!
>
> -- 
> Martin Hepworth
> Oxford, UK
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>
> On 11 April 2012 14:07, C. Jon Larsen <jlarsen at richweb.com 
> <mailto:jlarsen at richweb.com>> wrote:
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>         I find gentoo and slackware far better for any server that
>         doesnt want to inherit a distros hacking mess, but
>         you dont see me telling someone to piss off redhat and install
>         slackware or gentoo because "that will fix
>         their problem", no...
>         It comes down to what distro you know and prefer, but to sit
>         here and tell people to use debian as the cure
>         all is one of the stupidest and dumb assed things I've seen
>         here to date, especially when it will yield far
>         more questions than is necessary, and mostly all unrelated to
>         mailscanner, and in the end will likely not
>         solve the OP's problem, if it does it sure as hell will likely
>         introduce new problems for them.
>         If it smells like trolling, it tastes like trolling, then it
>         is trolling.
>         Think about it, how about we say install linux to every
>         windows person who has a problem, yes, I'd love too,
>         but hardly appropriate in the real world.
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>
>
>     Noel, I did not tell anyone to install anything. Calm down. I
>     simply said debian has pretty good versions of the packages needed
>     for mailscanner. Its worth a look for those that maybe are less
>     than happy. If you are happy where you are at, thats great.
>
>     And anyone that would claim that installing an OS is going to make
>     problems vanish is of course a fool. Go back to my last comment of
>     my 1st post in this thread and re-read it. There are a lot of
>     things an admin needs to have in place to run mailscanner. Putting
>     a cd into a box is the least of those skills.
>
>     In fact, 1 thing I probably should say just for the record, for
>     anyone else reading this :)  Is that the choice of your OS is LESS
>     important for a mailscanner installation than whether you are
>     virtualizing it or not.
>
>     The first thing I do is virtualize the setup, That way I can
>     snapshot the setup and if there is any breakage ... especially
>     when updating to a new release ... rollback is easy.
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>     Someone who is afraid to update his Centos mailscanner box b/c of
>     what may break would be better off spending time to virtualize it
>     rather than switching to any other OS of course.
>
>     -j
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>
>         BTW, debian lost most of any credibility a couple years ago
>         when they caused the SSL debacle.
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