mleisher
May 27th, 2009, 12:38 PM
I just installed 9.04 server for the first time, my third Ubuntu installation in all.
Problem 1: I have 20 years experience with setting up sendmail. Despite two weeks of fiddling with the distributed sendmail, I was never able to get it working. I ended up removing the debian setup and installed from source. Voila, ten minutes later, a working sendmail.
Problem 2: I thought I might give Postfix a try for the first time. Same problem as with sendmail. No matter what I did, it wouldn't work. Installing from source worked immediately.
Problem 3: I have several years of experience with dovecot. I tried to change Postfix to use the distributed dovecot to deliver mail. Couldn't get it work. Once again, installing from source worked pretty much out of the box.
Problem 4: I migrated some lists from an older mailman distribution to 9.04. After a couple weeks I finally discovered I had to manually construct and compile the aliases in /var/lib/mailman/data/ as well as /etc/aliases to make it work with Postfix. Never did find anything about that on the web.
For desktops, I have come to prefer Ubuntu over most other distributions, but on the server end some basic things seem to be getting so complicated and scattered that I will be moving our department to some other server distribution in the future.
Problem 1: I have 20 years experience with setting up sendmail. Despite two weeks of fiddling with the distributed sendmail, I was never able to get it working. I ended up removing the debian setup and installed from source. Voila, ten minutes later, a working sendmail.
Problem 2: I thought I might give Postfix a try for the first time. Same problem as with sendmail. No matter what I did, it wouldn't work. Installing from source worked immediately.
Problem 3: I have several years of experience with dovecot. I tried to change Postfix to use the distributed dovecot to deliver mail. Couldn't get it work. Once again, installing from source worked pretty much out of the box.
Problem 4: I migrated some lists from an older mailman distribution to 9.04. After a couple weeks I finally discovered I had to manually construct and compile the aliases in /var/lib/mailman/data/ as well as /etc/aliases to make it work with Postfix. Never did find anything about that on the web.
For desktops, I have come to prefer Ubuntu over most other distributions, but on the server end some basic things seem to be getting so complicated and scattered that I will be moving our department to some other server distribution in the future.