On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:18:02AM -0500, KLaM Postmaster wrote:
> From the replies that I have received so far, I get the impression that
> while no one has anything bad to say about the Ubuntu implementation of
> Postfix, nobody is very enthusiastic.
No, it is a fine Postfix port. There is no reason to avoid it. The dynamic
tables make it easy to add additional table types without re-installing
Postfix or building a Postfix that supports all possible table types. This
Postfix is at least as good as that on other Linux systems.
> I think I will stick with my current Fedora 10 setup for the moment,
> while I look around for a less quirky distribution.
Ubuntu may or may be quirky, but it is not Postfix that makes it so.
The (really Debian) changes you see in Ubuntu cleanly integrate Postfix
into the rest of the system, making SASL, loadable tables, ... fit more
organically into the larger system. And unlike the MacOSX laptop mode,
the changes are robust and reasonably well thought out.
Good system release engineering is often under-appreciated, lets not
give it a bad name here.
If Unix systems had a much more API for building and using shared
libraries, some of the Ubuntu code would be a nice addition to Postfix.
--
Viktor.
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