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 1LRzkG-0006ru-Cx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 220E1E05D5; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5959E05D5 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.21.228.82] (fa0-1-wlan-rtr.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.49.5]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A1F150048 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:01:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <497FBC7D.2080801@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:01:33 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo mail server References: <1233088701.24106.612.camel@brown.esteem.com> In-Reply-To: <1233088701.24106.612.camel@brown.esteem.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 588e8f06-fec7-4546-bc39-9047143cfc7f X-Archives-Hash: 190dc22088d9bb1a58acbacafd551477 Tom Brown wrote: > 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? I've been running a Gentoo mail server for either work or personal use and usually both since 2001. No real problems, but you do have to watch some updates especially sasl and courier. My current system is Postfix-2.5 At minimum I'd use Postfix-2.2 which has the better syntax for your virtual statements. Postgrey for greylisting, had some issues with sqlgrey. PostfixAdmin, because using phpmyadmin to manage your accounts and domains is futile. I'm still on 2.1 and need to check out the newer version. Requires PHP and a webserver. courier-imap and cyrus-sasl. Thinking about moving to Dovecot since you can use dovecot-sasl with Postfix under Gentoo. Mysql5 It's fully virtual, supports smtp and imap over ssl, sasl, skipped TLS, and easy to manage. I do not recommend the Gentoo Virtual How-to, it's ancient and silly. I used to have a how-to on gentoo-wiki which I need to recreate. Maybe this weekend. In regards to stability... don't update right away. When Postfix 2.6 comes out, give it a month. Or play with it in a virtual server. Same with Mysql 5.1. Or whatever. I've run three separate companies on Gentoo and never had much of an issue though I always had a test/stage/qa environment of some sort. Also keep an eye on the forums and this mail list. That'll usually give you a heads up when an update isn't quite right. kashani