At least!!! After several hours navigating from config file to config file, I managed to set up a small mail server based on Postfix (in charge for the SMTP part), Courier IMAP + POP (optionally over SSL), and MySQL for authentication.

Postfix itself and Courier were the easy part. Implementing the MySQL authentication scheme was a little bit harder, using some deprecated howto’s.

But now I can exchange mail with local users (users that can physically log on the system) and virtual users as well (defined in a database). The nice thing is that it supports multiple email addresses with the same prefix (as long as the domain is different: info@domain1.com and info@domain2.com).

I still have to investigate some other options (forwarding mail to many addresses, SaSL authentication scheme, …). I also have to install a nice web interface like Horde IMP for example.

Also, Fred is looking for using LDAP in place of MySQL. More news about it later on…

Take a look at this site. This must be a very frustrated old linux user. He surely didn’t understand Linux is all about freedom, freedom to put what you want in your /var dir, freedom to let run what you want in kernel mode, freedom to sacrify some security for a faster system… even if that would be dumb!

I give him though a good point for the funny icon of the site 😉

But if you had to choose beteween those…?

I like Gentoo…I love it! But I have to admit: sometimes I just want a dumb Linux that just works!

I launched a world update during the night, and this morning, after checking the /etc files, I just logged-out, logged-in to check if everything worked fine…

Guess what… X didn’t want to start anymore: cannot load nvidia driver… re-emerging nvidia-glx did the trick. But then started the struggle to let firefox work in FVWM!!! Note that it worked right with KDE or XFCE…and it worked with FVWM before the world update…

After some googling and gentoo forums search, it seemed that I had to upgrade FVWM to a masked version (2.5.14 for amd64) to let firefox (and thunderbird, which both use the mozilla-launcher script to start) start again. Apparently, FVWM (and fluxbox) makes firefox start under the wallpaper…(check this bug report).

Finally, everything is working fine now… Each problem has a solution with gentoo…the only problem is to find it 😉