From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 8 12:31:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9068C37B672; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 12:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 524FD18F7; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 14:31:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 14:31:11 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Brad Knowles Cc: attila! , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSTFIX-- Wietse: tweak and go! --pkg & port: both duds Message-ID: <20001008143111.D539@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <20001008070212.04A381C2AB@hun.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:14:14PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:14:14PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > 2. You mention the use of snapshots, but this is not > recommended practice for sites new to postfix. Instead, > start with the most recent "release" version, e.g., > postfix-19991231-pl09. > > According to Wietse, the "snapshot" versions are: > > Work-in-progress code, subject to change, needs > testing before it can become an official release. > > However, these versions are what he runs on his own > systems, so it's probably better than the official > "production" release version of code from most anyone > else. Heh.. Wietse uses so-called ``experimental'' Postfix on his systems. And there are *LOTS* of people who think that whatever Wietse runs is good enough for them.. so this statement had better be hased on personal experience about the actual stability of ``experimental''. -- Will Andrews - Physics Computer Network wench The Universal Answer to All Problems - "It has something to do with physics." -- Comic on door of Room 240, Physics Building, Purdue University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message