John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 00:04, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Some days ago I decided to configure some pop accounts (only used imap before) and ran into the /dev/random problem. I was lazy and simply set "allowapop:0" in /etc/imapd.conf. This is still Suse 9.2, do you know if the problem still persists in Suse 10.x?
Don't know. I had to use Cyrus on a SLES 9 Server for a customer but I can't justify the pain for my local 10.1 machine.
I'm tolerating postfix, but if it gives me any more lip I'm going back to sendmail. My general opinion is that Postfix set out to solve all the problems of sendmail and created a whole new set of problems in the process.
Postfix definitely has a different philosophy. I never even started to dig into sendmail and chose Postfix as my default MTA. I don't regret it, but I also spend a LOT of time to get familiar with the concepts. If you have a good solid understanding of sendmail why not use it? For various reasons sendmail didn't appeal to me, and I liked the way Postfix is configured and debugged.
Cyrus attempts a unified approach to delivery, and if they can make it a little easier to install, and incorporate the saslauthd part, the virus scanning, the spam scanning it would be great.
I feel more comfortable with dedicated tools that I can chain together as needed than one huge bloated application that is authenticating, reading, filtering and commenting my mails. Such an all-in-one app is either running or broken beyond any hope, no leeway and difficult to debug.
But by the time you add up postfix, amavis, spamassassin, vscan(of some variety) cyrus, and sieve scripts, you have a very difficult install. Throw in ldap, (or worse, some off-machine authentication) and it gets nasty.
Try it with ldap/sql synchronisation, connection caching, round-robin dns for multiple host resolution, individual sql based policies in amavisd-new and policyd, and you have true hell. (^-^) Fortunately, I don't have the need for such a big infrastructure. Well, at least now I don't need it. Who knows what will happen in the future. (^-^) Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com