Best solution for mail server?

[Henning Larsen]

Thanks Tim, It works ok here now.

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 09:20 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:25 +0100, Henning Larsen wrote:
> > The .fetchmailrc files is now in users home dirs. They are owned by
> > root, and they contain passwords.
> > Should I change owners of the files and put passwords somewhere else?
> 
> I can't see any reason why you'd want them owned by root.  The users
> know their own passwords (or should do).  The users can still replace a
> root-owned file in their own homespace.  Fetchmail doesn't need them
> owned by root, and I don't know if that might cause a problem by itself.

I changed ownership of the files and that worked better.
I am not paranoid, but want to do things right, considering the
passwords in plaintext inside the users .fetchmailrc files?

> > About what you said about primes, I don't follow.
> 
> The poll times is the number of seconds between polls.  If you set them
> all at 8 minutes, for example, then all your mail polling would happen
> at the same time (barring server delays, etc.).  If you had a lot of
> users, that might be a heavy workload (or a real pain over slow dialup,
> as your mail polling swamps your bandwidth).  If you set them with
> different poll time values, then they'd usually poll separately, but at
> some stage they might poll at the same time as their time periods
> overlap.  That shouldn't happen with primes, as they're not multiples of
> other numbers.
> 
> > if polls happen every 11 and 13 minute they will crash every 11x13
> > min.
> 
> What's crashing?

I'm sorry, bad english, I meant happend at the same time. :)
I too said that primes would ensure they only would poll at the same
time every prime1 * prime2, but non primes will do if they are good
selected, I know what I want to say, but I don't know the english words
for it. :(
9 and 16 would be ok, but not 9 and 15.
But sticking to primes seems like the way to go.... as long as the not
are 7 all of them :)
 
one more/other thing, i have an old 466mhz width 384MB ram I will setup
as a server, I consider centos and debian, which one would you
recommend?

Henning Larsen