Starting from scratch

[Billy Pumphrey]

Thank you for the reply.  1024 is the max on it.  I only process about 2400
messages daily so 1024 should be good hey?  I will go RAID1 then.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM]
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:55 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
>
> 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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