WE are in the early engineering stages of building a replacement system for one that we installed about 25 years ago that has served us well, and aged gracefully. However it is tied to some commercial software for a vendor that long ago fell into the back hole of commercial software vendors. Yep, no source code.
So, I am doing some soul searching. Our OS decision tree that is a legacy from that time is as follows: if faces the outside world, or is network curious (DNS for example) OS = OpenBSD else if OS need fancy GUI, or commercial software is involve OS = Linux els OS = FreeBSD this has served us well for many years, but it has been a long time since we did anteing involving FreeBSD. Granted I still have solid machines protected by modern OpenBSD fireballs, but ... I am thinking I may want to go down to 2 choices for OS's. Given that, most of the things we are doing with FreeBSD, Apache, Samba, NFS etc, do not concern me as to doing them with OpenBSD. but I am a bit concerned about the mailserver. We use it for internal mail, and it gets mail from a large variety of systems, and devices, not all of which are modern. also I offer our users many options for retrieving their mail. With this in mid, I'd like to hear the experience of others using OpenBSD for mailserver. Thanks. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
