[TriLUG] RE: TriLUG mailserver...

[Andrew C. Oliver]

<red-in-the-face>Do you know how many freaking times I've offered to do 
it? </red-in-the-face>

Jon Carnes wrote:

>Here, here! I wish you had said all that with the TriLUG "hat" on!
>
>I'm thinking here that the SC is doing all the work alone, and that none of
>the population of TriLUG is currently lending a hand with the work... So, as
>the updated little Red Hen might say: Who will help me build my Imap server?
>
>Jon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thunder Bear
>Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:53 AM
>Subject: Re: OT: flame on (was Re: [TriLUG] Debian Bigots)
>
>
>[Vice Chair Hat Off]
>
>On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:47, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
>  
>
>>Man I feel all the love.  Now can we all start trying to increase the
>>signal on this conversation and turn it back
>>towards Linux?  I'd like to have an in depth conversation about mail
>>servers (it apparently takes at least 6 months
>>to set one up on linux).
>>    
>>
>
>Andrew,
>
>I don't know precisely what you're trying to say but I don't much like
>the taste of it.
>
>If you're referring to the TriLUG mail server, keep in mind a few
>things:
>
>* Bluntly, the stonesoup server was a pile of chicken fecal matter (had
>to fit that in somewhere).  I can only imagine how helpful you would
>have been during each of its frequent crashes.
>* TriLUG is sitting on a nice cache of hardware now, more in fact than
>our half rack at Inflow will hold.  One of the things we need to set up
>is Kerberos, and another is LDAP.  These two things are typically harder
>to set up than mail, and usually require even more up front planning
>than actual implementation time.
>* TriLUG volunteers are just that, volunteers.  They don't put in 40
>hour weeks on this.  They work on projects here and there as time
>permits.
>
>  
>
>>I understand Microsoft Exchange can be set up "securely" in a few
>>minutes.  How odd it takes 6 months to set up
>>whatever-mail-service-we-are-planning-to-use on linux ;-)
>>    
>>
>
>Feel free to run Exchange at home.  The more patient of us will
>appreciate the nice mail server that is done right.
>
>  
>
>>I'd like to understand a little more as to why.
>>    
>>
>
>Because the world doesn't revolve around Andrew Oliver's quest for
>perfect internet services.
>
>  
>
>>I'm freeing up for time
>>shortly and I'm planning to set my own mail server up so that I can have
>>email thats at least as reliable as the postal service again (although
>>strangely I've started receiving mine today but it might be a fluke).
>>    
>>
>
>Does that mean the complaining will stop?
>
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>
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