From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 21:32:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD94A16A859 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:32:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maillist@ovb.ch) Received: from ovbis01.ovb.ch (ovbis01.ovb.ch [213.188.32.144]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8802713C441 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:32:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maillist@ovb.ch) Received: from ovbas00.ovb.ch ([213.180.173.192] helo=[192.168.30.100]) by ovbis01.ovb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1H4O0w-0008h5-VM; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:56:11 +0100 Message-ID: <45A4016A.3080803@ovb.ch> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:56:10 +0100 From: Oliver von Bueren User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <200701090009.l0909lD0073478@puremail.eis.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200701090009.l0909lD0073478@puremail.eis.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Webmail alternatives X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:32:10 -0000 User Ernie wrote: > SurgeMail looks interesting but they have a strong FreeBSD warning: > > " FREEBSD is not recommended as we consider the operating system itself > unstable when used with a threaded/forking application. We have also noted > an unreasonable rate of incompatibility and outright bugs with each new > release of FreeBSD. So we recommend Linux instead as a better choice when > possible." > OFF-Topic: That looks like the authors do not like FreeBSD and/or are not able to produce true stable and cross-platform compliant code. I'd rather not go that route if the maintainer have that attitude. On the other hand, I don't know that program at all. I'm sure my FreeBSD server never crashed since the last office move (857 days ago) because no program on the server ever used anything like fork or threading, as it's only running Apache, exim, ..... Pretty bad for a system to not crash once in over 2.3 years. BTW: I wonder how they keep up with the different distributions of Linux if they have problems adapting to a few FreeBSD releases. We're talking about a high level application and not some low level hardware stuff. Sorry, couldn't resist. Oliver