TriLUG mail server (was Re: OT: flame on (was Re: [TriLUG] Debian Bigots))

[Jeremy P]

On 29 Jul 2002, Chris Knowles wrote:

> <Troll Food>
> 
> Exchange server can be set up in minutes.  I don't think the word secure
> can be applied.
> 
> Linux mail servers can be setup in a few minutes, hours-days for really
> secure setups. 
> 
> 2 things however, mitigate against fast setup of the trilug server.
> 
> 1) Hardware failures.

Right, the alpha server "bucky" that we were planning to use for Kerberos
and/or LDAP has been pretty unreliable.  John Turner and the Center for
Public Domain have donated a new server; with some work this will help us
a lot.

It's not the mail server itself that is the problem (that was setup long 
ago).  It's getting a good, central authentication system for the TriLUG 
cluster, so you won't have ten passwords to remember (and so the sysadmins 
won't go crazy managing accounts).  This is much more complex than setting 
up a mail server.

> 2) It's not a day-job.  (Or a family job)  The people doing this are
> volunteers.  They work on it when they can.  

Right.  Tanner has been on vacation recently, and we all have day jobs and 
families.  We work on it when we can.

--Jeremy