Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-04-05 Thread mouss
Lyndon Tiu wrote: It's only a benefit if using Linux unless there is rpm for Solaris and FreeBSD that I am not aware of. FreeBSD uses ports. NetBSD uses pkgsrc (this is also ported to other systems). some linux distros have their own package mgmt tools. How's Courier in pkgadd :) I typical

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-04-04 Thread eculp
Quoting "Derrick T. Woolworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Courier on Windows 98 is absolutely the best! First, get the cygwin environment and install it - then compile courier with the cygwin gcc compiler and let it rip. If you can get MySQL to compile on Win98 then you're set! Don't waste your ti

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-04-03 Thread Derrick T. Woolworth
Courier on Windows 98 is absolutely the best!  First, get the cygwin environment and install it - then compile courier with the cygwin gcc compiler and let it rip.  If you can get MySQL to  compile on Win98 then you're set!  Don't waste your time with Win2003 Server - its too unstable - Win98 is th

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Taroli
Lyndon Tiu wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:15:17 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, until you clobber your etc folder by untarring over top of it... But I'm sure you're a good sysadmin that would never do that of course :-) That's where backups come into play :) Alw

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Lyndon Tiu
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:15:17 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, until you clobber your etc folder by untarring over top of it... > But I'm sure you're a good sysadmin that would never do that of course :-) That's where backups come into play :) Always backup your courier configurations!!

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jay Lee writes: RPM doesn't do you much good if it's not used by the OS/distro itself IMHO, if rpm were ported to Solaris which I believe it has been, what good does it do unless you install RPMS of all the Reqs and BuildReqs via RPM also? RPM will build Solaris, but it won't do much good un

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Jay Lee
Lyndon Tiu wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:35:11 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Bill Taroli wrote: 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 s

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Lyndon Tiu
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:35:11 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Bill Taroli wrote: > > > >> 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

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Taroli
Bowie Bailey wrote: Bill Taroli wrote: 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

RE: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bill Taroli wrote: > > 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 kn

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Taroli
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 Sol

RE: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
Lyndon Tiu wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:27:08 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Your comments and observations will be highly appreciated. > > Don't know about THE best but we have a production email server on > CentOS 4.2 on Dell hardware. It's working just fine. I have been running Cour

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Jay Lee
Dew Ediho wrote: This is mostly an accademic question, but one whose answer will benefit my curious mind. I have been running courier mta (the whole shebang but for sqwebmail) for nearly 2 years with no major hiccups. My implementation runs on FreeBSD 5.3 on Compaq Proliant Servers. That in

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Mike Horwath
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:39:12PM -0800, Lyndon Tiu wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:27:08 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Your comments and observations will be highly appreciated. > > Don't know about THE best but we have a production email server on > CentOS 4.2 on Dell hardware. It's wor

Re: [courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Lyndon Tiu
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:27:08 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your comments and observations will be highly appreciated. > Don't know about THE best but we have a production email server on CentOS 4.2 on Dell hardware. It's working just fine. -- Lyndon Tiu ---

[courier-users] Best Platform for Courier

2006-03-30 Thread Dew Ediho
This is mostly an accademic question, but one whose answer will benefit my curious mind.I have been running courier mta (the whole shebang but for sqwebmail) for nearly 2 years with no major hiccups.My implementation runs on FreeBSD 5.3 on Compaq Proliant Servers.I haven't had the benefit of runni