Steve Jenkins:
> Yes, I realize that many on this list are not CentOS fans, but the
> RHEL distro it's based on is the only one officially supported on a
> big chunk of our hardware (some older Dell boxes) so it's what we use.
> And because it's free, it's also used by a good number of sysadmins.
>
> So the GOOD news is that after installing the recently released CentOS
> 6, I discovered that Sendmail is no longer the default MTA. The
> default is Postfix. Yay! Of course, that's old news to anyone running
> the full blown RHEL6, but I thought it was cool anyway. Congrats,
> Wietse. :)
>
> The BAD news is that while the installed version is newer than 2.3.3
> (which was in CentOS 5), it's only 2.6.6. I suppose that's still
> progress, but I'm working on an updated version of my "Installing the
> latest Postfix on CentOS" blog article to walk people through using a
> spec file to build their own 2.8.4 RPM and upgrade with it.
Good idea. Postfix 2.6 "author" support will cease in about 1.5 years.
Wietse
