Which distro?

[Kevin Miller]

Postfix seemed to be a bit more intuitive I guess.  Of course, anything new is going to look daunting at first.

I started out with sendmail years ago.  Never delved to deeply into it but was able to manage the macro files OK and get basic things like greet-pause working.  Never tried to edit a .cf file by hand.  Extending Postfix looked to be easier than sendmail so when I was building the new servers I figured it was time to learn it.

That and having followed the MailScanner discussion list for somewhere around 13 years now it seems that most folks were using sendmail or postfix with a handful using Exim.  I figure I had a better chance of getting help and finding wiki pages about setting up Postfix.  Whether true or not I don’t know but that was my gut feeling.

I thought you were already a Exim fan.  I tried to get mailborder up a couple years ago, but all the additional python stuff threw me for a loop.  I stumbled through it but then it was giving me some other errors finally cut my losses.  It was configured for Exim IIRC…

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
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From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Which distro?

Kevin,

I was actually thinking of switching from Postfix to Exim. What made you do the opposite?

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com<http://www.mailborder.com>



On Feb 17, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Kevin Miller <kevin.miller at juneau.org<mailto:kevin.miller at juneau.org>> wrote:

I’m running several MailScanner/MailWatch boxes on Debian Jessie.  Works just fine.  I did change the email server to Postfix from Exim but other than that it was pretty seamless.

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
155 South Seward Street
Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500 Registered Linux User No: 307357

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Subject: Which distro?

Hi everybody,
I am about to configure a new mail filter server based on MailScanner + MailWatch. Since I do not have any distro preferences or requirements, do you suggest a specific one? In the install guide Debian 8 is not mentioned (is it too recent?), so I think I will choose between CentOS 7 and Ubuntu LTS 14: is there a best distro for MailScanner?


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