On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Ned Slider <n...@unixmail.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25/03/14 04:05, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Johnny Hughes <joh...@centos.org> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Has anybody gotten this working? > >>>> > >>>> By the way, this is CentOS 6.5. > >>> If you are starting from scratch building a mail server you might want > >>> to look at SME server or ClearOS where webmail works out of the box. > >>> > >> > >> It would be my personal preference that we help people run things on > >> CentOS rather than always recommending another distribution. > > > > SME isn't exactly an 'other' distribution, and ClearOS wouldn't be if > > CentOS6 had had a timely release. They are the same code underneath, > > just already configured to work as installed and with a few additions. > > > > Whilst I understand why Johnny would prefer to be able to offer a > CentOS-based solution rather than signposting users towards other > products, I must admit I kind of agree with Les here. > > My initial thought to Johnny's reply was why would CentOS want to > reinvent this particular wheel, looking to solve a problem that has > already been solved, just not by CentOS. > > I thought that CentOS's space was to be plug compatible with RHEL. Or has that changed? As such any upgrade to a package that also in RHEL breaks that paradigm. Pragmatically that is going to happen in the hobbyist arena, but probably should not happen in the professional (for want of a better word) arena. Cheers, Cliff _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
