On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Has anybody gotten this working?
By the way, this is CentOS 6.5.
If you are starting from scratch building a mail server you might want to look at SME server or ClearOS where webmail works out of the box.
It would be my personal preference that we help people run things on CentOS rather than always recommending another distribution.
SME isn't exactly an 'other' distribution, and ClearOS wouldn't be if CentOS6 had had a timely release. They are the same code underneath, just already configured to work as installed and with a few additions.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with ClearOS ... I wouldn't know, I have never used it. However, this is a CentOS mailing list, not a ClearOS one, so I would appreciate it if we at least answer the questions asked concerning setup first before recommending another OS.
If CentOS shipped a distribution that was a decent mail server as installed then I'd certainly recommend that. But it's a toolbox with lots of assembly required. The dozen or so people who know how to build their own mail server from scratch probably won't ask my advice.
I mean, I could also say ... Use FreeBSD or Microsoft Exchange or Something on Mac or whatever.
But those things aren't running the same kernel and packages as CentOS, so it would make less sense to mention them here.
If people really, really want to recommend something else then that is of course fine ... it is a community list after all. But even if someone does recommend another OS, if YOU know how to fix the problem on CentOS ... or ... if a SIG might help, then don't fail to also answer the original question asked just because someone else recommended "super whamodyne OS version awesome".
The SIG approach will probably work - eventually. When they have stuff that comes up doing some job as installed.