[TriLUG] Debian any good?

[Peter Long]

I have heard courier-imap mentioned several times on the list. I guess 
this is a good time to check it out.

Thanks for the tip.

--
Peter Long

Jason Tower wrote:
> debian will have everything that you need, no question about it.  
> however, i'll toss in my $.02 and suggest that you take a look 
> courier-imap/pop instead of UW.  it is a lot more flexible and 
> configurable than UW, although it does require the use of Maildir 
> instead of mbox to store messages.  i made the switch several months 
> ago and love it.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 23:12, Peter Long wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Since my harddisk is acting funny I have decided to upgrade the OS on
>>my RedHat 8.0 box (and replace the disk at the same time). I have
>>been using RedHat and Mandrake for the last 6 years so I think its
>>time to try something new. I tried KNOPPIX 3.3 earlier today when on
>>Brian Weaver's advice I used badblocks to check the disk (none found
>>Brian). I was very impressed with KNOPPIX. It found all my hardware
>>and even had the sound working without any tinkering on my part! I
>>understand KNOPPIX is based on Debian so I thought I would try it as
>>the OS of my Linux machine.
>>
>>However I thought it might be prudent to ask for advice from current
>>Debian users on the list. I mainly use the machine as a NAT gateway
>>and firewall as well as my mail-server. I use postfix and University
>>of Washington IMAP. I also plan to use shorewall as my firewall. At
>>the moment I just use IPtables on its own. I assume the Debian distro
>>will contain all these apps.
>>
>>Any tips or advice would be appreciated.
>>
>>--
>>Peter Long
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