In a comment on my Legend of Debian post,Chris Wage wrote in part:

Most of the servers I run are: webservers, mailservers, CVS servers,etc. These are things for which well-established stable software hasexisted for years. I don't need bleeding-edge software to do them. Ineed stable representatives of that software that are supported bysecurity updates but don't otherwise change.

I have to disagree with this in the case of mail servers.

Unless you actively enjoy getting spammed

It looks like the hope from last week that spammers had stoppedforging University of Toronto subdomains as the origin of their spamwas in fact just a hope. 'Nonexistent local user' rejections are backup like clockwork. Oh well; it would have been nice.

IP level rejections:

Host/Mask           Packets   Bytes212.216.176.0/24       6663    339K213.4.149.11           6659

There's a story about vendor support people like to tell: if you payenough money, a lot of money, you'll get excellent support; but if youaren't willing to pay lots of money for support, clearly it's not really that important to you.

I don't know if paying lots of money gets you excellent support; I'venever worked for an organization that was in a position to pay thatsort of money. (I think you are unlikely to get

There is a story that salesmen like to tell you: if you buy everypiece of your system from them, you'll get excellent support becausethere's only one vendor involved. One set of people who knoweverything, one place to contact, and there'll never be finger-pointback and forth about whose fault something going wrong is.

This is a myth. Let's look at the reality.

Let's say that you want some front-end servers all talking to a big