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Topic: iRedMail Config Comparisons

Hi,

1)
http://www.iredmail.org/admin_panel.html
this link gave me a somewhat comparisons of the diff install options, but it create a lot of questions, which I am not going to get into.

Just like to ask, what's the recommended configuration to use, or what's the best options to select and why ?

2)
http://www.iredmail.org/forum/post36296.html#p36296
you have:
2 ver of CentOS,
1 ver of Debian,
1 ver of OpenBSD,
1 ver of  FreeBSD,
3 ver of Ubuntu.

for Ubuntu why not just support the LTS ?
and if you need the latest, then just add that one. No I thing the LTS only for the Ubuntu.
You can drop the old centos too, because centos is like LTS only.

[MySQL, PGSQL, LDAP]  are we missing one ?  MariaDB
is MariaDB been drop in version 1.0 ?

iRedMail v1.0 =
Nginx (winner)
Sogo (winner)
debian 7/centos 6/openBSD 5.6/unbuntu 12.04 (winners)



Thanks.

http://code.google.com/p/nginx-auth-ldap/
http://demongin.org/
http://code.svn.wordpress.org/nginx_auth_mysql/
https://oitibs.com/mysql-authentication-on-nginx/

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Re: iRedMail Config Comparisons

Mariadb is a drop in replacement for MySQL, you can always install Mariadb and it'll replace mysql

In the system versions he said for example, he just listed a bunch of systems he has to test, in fact the list is longer.
As for what backend you use, use whichever one you're most comfortable with, if you have no ldap experience, go for the sql you prefer for example.

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Re: iRedMail Config Comparisons

fbifido wrote:

Just like to ask, what's the recommended configuration to use, or what's the best options to select and why ?

For end user, there's no difference. For server admins, the biggest difference is how to maintain the SQL/LDAP server.
We recommend iRedMail admins to choose the backend they're familiar with. for example, if you're an experienced MySQL DBA, the best option for you is using MySQL backend.

fbifido wrote:

for Ubuntu why not just support the LTS ?
and if you need the latest, then just add that one. No I thing the LTS only for the Ubuntu.

For Ubuntu, it's a good idea to just support the latest LTS edition, it helps reduce our workload.
But since many Ubuntu users like the latest release, it's good to support it for next LTS edition.

fbifido wrote:

You can drop the old centos too, because centos is like LTS only.

CentOS is not like Ubuntu LTS that much.
RHEL/CentOS 7 was released for a long time, but most iRedMail users who chose CentOS still prefer CentOS 6, about 2 times more than CentOS 7.

fbifido wrote:

[MySQL, PGSQL, LDAP]  are we missing one ?  MariaDB
is MariaDB been drop in version 1.0 ?

If the Linux/BSD distribution provides MariaDB package offically, iRedMail will support it.
And the roadmap is opposite, MySQL MAY be dropped due to distribution vendor dislike it, and MariaDB will be the winner.

fbifido wrote:

iRedMail v1.0 =
Nginx (winner)
Sogo (winner)
debian 7/centos 6/openBSD 5.6/unbuntu 12.04 (winners)

Obvious winners will be:

*) Nginx
*) Debian, just the latest stable release. When new stable was released (e.g. upcoming Debian 8), we will support old stable release for about one year.
*) CentOS 6+7. RHEL/CentOS have long lifetime, maybe drop support for old release after the latest stable version was released for 2 years.
*) OpenBSD, latest stable release.
*) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (not 12.04).

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Re: iRedMail Config Comparisons

Thanks, again