Ok, well, I'm willing to go either way really. I'm pretty easy. I will attempt to get the maildir setup properly and see how that goes on the current system. However, perhaps a more basic question I could put to everyone is this; If I want to run a stable server with courier running on it... What's the opinions? I'm willing to try to learn any free *IX OS. I prefer not to do a lot of compiling if I don't have to because I tend to have bad luck with complicated --configure commands although I guess really I need to get better with them. As a side note, I have settled on Ubuntu as a desktop OS because of it's ease of use.
Thanks a bunch for you input folks. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd Zusman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:24 AM To: courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [courier-users] Complete newbie Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:29:21 -0400, Sam Varshavchik > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > mrsam> [ ... ] > mrsam> Problem #1. Courier Debian packages are ancient, obsolete code > mrsam> that nobody cares about anymore. > > Uhmm, did you mean to slam on Debian? You would be right about the > "testing" ("etch") and "stable" ("sarge") distributions, they're still > at Courier version 0.47. > > However, if you're looking at the "unstable" distribution (which isn't > so unstable, I run it on my laptop with zero problems), which is where > current development goes on, you will see the following: > > [ ... etc. ... ] So, would a more fair statement be this? Courier packages on debian-etch and debian-sarge are ancient, obsolete code and are no longer supported, unlike those on debian-unstable, which tend to be more up to date. Despite your success at using "unstable", many people are uneasy about using packages from that distribution, for obvious reasons, and therefore, they don't install such applications. These people should not be surprised if they encounter problems or a lack of certain features when they install version 0.47 of courier from "testing" or "stable", and they are not likely to get as much support here as they could with a newer version. In addition to the debian solution that involves the use of "unstable", at least for the courier-related packages (which will probably pull in other unstable apps in the process), another option is to try to build courier from source using the latest tarballs. Of course, that also will probably require upgrading certain subsidiary packages to the versions that reside on "unstable". In summary, I guess I would say that it's not recommended to install courier on debian unless you use the "unstable" packages or else build it from source. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.0/368 - Release Date: 6/16/2006 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
