Dew Ediho wrote:
I haven't had the benefit of running a production server in any other environment and would like the opinion (please share your experience) of members of this group on which you would consider to be the best platform for Courier?
I run a small number of my own domains on Solaris 9. The only real issue I've had was getting more recent versions ( > 0.50.0) to build. But since a recent thread describing how to force the use the Gnu ld (even if gcc wasn't built with it), I have been able to get 0.53.1 (and auth 0.58) running w/o issue. The only functional issue that you might find is that this distro doesn't come with famd by default; I've managed to get a build from another source and find it works wonderfully with no more overhead than on Linux.
I also run Courier on FC4 for a lab at work, and it runs well there, too. I find that I have been continuing to build from sources there still since (a) got used to it with Solaris and (b) central RPMs don't seem to keep up on latest versions well -- or I just don't know where to look. ;-)
So... is there a "best" platform? Well, I guess it depends on your situation. If you were very high volume, then a clustered implementation with beefy CPU might be advised. But for smaller implementations, I don't think it makes much difference.
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