Starting from scratch

[Billy Pumphrey]

I had no support contracts or anything.

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> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:34 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
>
> At 12:55 PM 4/4/2005, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >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
>
> Hey Billy,
>
> Move to CentOS 3.4 http://www.centos.org. RedHat 9 support has already run
> out on you, hasn't it?
>
>
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