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Postfix Archives: Re: Postfix Maintenance?

Re: Postfix Maintenance?

Subject: Re: Postfix Maintenance?
From: Rafi Sadowsky (rafimeron.openu.ac.il)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 13:04:24 CST

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Christopher Petrilli wrote:

> Jeff Bacon [baconArbitrade.COM] wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:27:20AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > > > But to take care for the long term aspects of my planned mail software
> > > > change, it's important for me to know who's doing the further
> > > > maintenance for Postfix.
> > >
> > > I find that people install Postfix and forget it until something
> > > breaks, which is rare. I'm sure that some people are still running
> > > an alpha release.
> >
> > That'd be us. :) we're running a version from January 1999. It
> > has yet to even burp slightly; it just delivers mail, day in and
> > day out, any way we want, quickly and quietly and with a small memory
> > footprint. No security risks that I know of. It's occured to us that
> > maybe we should upgrade, but ... why fix what ain't broken?
mail_version = Beta-19981230 ( on Solaris 2.6 )
only reason I see for upgrading is better bounce handling
& maybe a access reject policy
just worked - no problems
I also used Postfix-19990906-pl07 as an emergency MX backup for a
neighboring university which was cut off the net for 2 weeks
under 10 minutes spent on the config file
(with a dedicated secondary IP)
no tuning of OS or postfix - mail spool reached 5+ GB - no problems or
slowdowns ( except that mailq was *real* slow ) with 100+ incoming SMTP
sessions - only problem was the time it took to clear the Queue when they
came up again - since their main mail machine runs sendmail it took a few
days to clear :-)
>
> You know this strikes me as the way software should be, rather than having
> to rush to upgrade, you do it whenever it's really NECESSARY. I upgrade
> Postfix oh, say once a year, whether it needs it or not, simply to clear
> out any cruft, but honestly, I doubt that's necessary.
a nice change from M$ (or Netscape Messaging Server for that matter) QA
>
> > Thanks Wietse.
>
> Seconded.
>
> Chris
me too :-)
>
        Rafi

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