Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Over a year ago I replaced Sendmail with Postfix on my main mail server. The new mail setup has worked very well ever since. There was however still room for improvement: I still used UW IMAP as the IMAP and POP3 server. This software works fine in general but is neither particular fast nor under [...]
During the previous week the new stable package source branch pkgsrc-2010Q1 was created. Among the many new packages my favourites are clearly these three: Samba 3.3.12 NetBSD’s Samba package (version 3.0.37) is outdated and no longer supported by the Samba team. The new net/samba33 package provides a newer and above all still supported version. The upgrade [...]
Three weeks ago I finally managed to finish one of my longest lasting IT projects at home: replacing the Sendmail MTA on all my NetBSD systems with Postfix. There were plenty of reasons for this migration: Sendmail’s configuration files are incomprehensible to most people including me. You can build them from somewhat understandable templates. But [...]