[OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[Jonathan Adams]

We have infrastructure based on and supported by sendmail.

I know that postfix does "everything" sendmail does ... but we have a
lot of experience and history related to the Solaris version of
Sendmail (and yes it is different from the one from sendmail.org)

_IF_ you really want postfix to be there can we make it an alternative
in the same way as network/physical:nwam and network/physical:default
so as not to break compatibility, but add extra features?

Jon

On 26 January 2011 09:34, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 03:32 PM, Mark wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Postfix is probably the easiest drop-in replacement. But IMO
>>> a packaging of it should get lots of testing before going into
>>> a stable distro, and regardless of which is eventually the
>>> default or preferred choice, both should remain available.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I did poke around at this, but found that the fmd smtp notification uses
>> sendmail, and has a dependancy on it, so I put the effort into getting
>> fmd working via snmp instead.
>
> postfix will handle that just fine. It is just a packaging issue.
>
>
>>
>> I'm probably biased, having had to hire a "sendmail expert" for a week
>> to create a complex email routing server with Solaris, that I later
>> replaced with postfix myself in an afternoon (on Centos).
>
> Not keen on reading and writing sendmail rulesets? Yeah, me neither.
> Forgetting to use tabs just makes you go bonkers later.
>
>
>>
>> I'm a fan of the minimal "fries with that" OS approach, and then clip in
>> your favourite packages.
>
> Well, sendmail would be minimal...you'd have to patch it to be mysql table
> lookup support for example while postfix will just require enabling to get
> mysql/pgsql/pcre lookups...maybe too fancy for some.
>
>
>>
>> I'm about to "update" a 40Tb snv_134 storage server to OpenIndiana.
>>
>> I've migrated the data already, and there is a considerable difference
>> in setup around networking and zfs ACL's especially with sharing
>> filesystems with both nfs and smb.
>
>
> I guess using samba means that I will miss out on that kind of stuff. But I
> don't see considerable difference in networking unless you are talking about
> nwam or more features...
>
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