Starting from scratch

[Martin Hepworth]

Billy

I'd buy more RAM, drop a disk and use RAID1 - RAID 5 with only 3 disk
will slow the I/O down quite alot.

There's lots of nice stuff in SA3.02 so I'd drip feed you existing rules
into it, and make sure you have the URI-RBL's turned on too...

Also watch out for the ALL_TRUSTED rules in SA 3.02 (see the comment in
latest spam.assassin.prefs.conf).


--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Billy Pumphrey wrote:
> I searched the mailscanner archives at
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=mailscanner&D=0&T=0&H=0&O=T&F=&S
> =
>
> But I could not locate updates information.  I also tried to find the
> recently topic of "Complete Build".  I know that there is a ton of
> information in there but I just could not find it.  I know that a lot is
> talked about what to run it on, however if I may inquire on my setup as
> Linux is not my environment of expertise.  I will try to make my questions
> short.  My main and pretty much only question is what versions should I use?
>
> What I have now:
> 550mhz
> 384 RAM
> IDE hard drive (desktop)
>
> I will be moving to:
> Server
> Dual 600PIII
> 1024 RAM
> 3x9.1GB RAID 5 Hard drives
>
> What I have now:
> Redhat 9 (Shrike)
> MailScanner 4.25
> Spamassassin 2.61
> MailStats for statistics
> Running RulesDuJour
> Running other rules too
> Sendmail version ??
> Sophos virus scanning
>
> In question to move to:
> Should I still use Redhat 9?  Seems to work fine
> MailScanner 4.40.11
> Sendmails latest version 8.13.4
> Spamassassin latest version 3.0.2
> Different rule sets from the web sites
>
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