From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRuhU-0007ya-CJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:38:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22D22E0336; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.esteem.com (owt-64-146-239-67.owt.com [64.146.239.67]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010B8E0336 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.32.9] ([::ffff:172.16.32.9]) (AUTH: LOGIN tbrown, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by mail.esteem.com with esmtp; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:38:22 -0800 id 0001F81C.497F70BE.000059D2 Subject: [gentoo-user] gentoo mail server From: Tom Brown To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Organization: ESTeem Wireless Modems Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:38:21 -0800 Message-Id: <1233088701.24106.612.camel@brown.esteem.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Archives-Salt: 3541db1c-57a7-4eaa-b432-845ff396d724 X-Archives-Hash: ea8e2d73cf4c7a145b702bfc6c31daa2 Hey guys, I've been using gentoo on my desktop for several months now. I works great. It cut five minutes off my build time when I build our product tree. It went from 20 to 15 minutes. I setup our email server using Debian. Its been solid as a rock and very low maintenance. However, it provides an antiquated environment. I'm looking at using gentoo for the email so I'll have an up-to-date system. Peformance is fine on the Debian system, but hey, faster is always better. I was hoping you guys could give me warm fuzzies about stability and maintenance with gentoo when it comes to a production server. What about major upgrades? If I keep the system updated regularly, is a major upgrade necessary? Thanks! Tom