Starting from scratch

[Res]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Peter Russell wrote:

> I reckon centos 4.0 (which is just rhel without the license and groovy
> installer) is the go, or buy a red hat license and use Red Hat
> Proffessional 4.0
>
> Red Hat 9 is too old now...


Its tried and proven, we have RH9 boxes with manual kernel upgrades when
security dictates, they are unbreakable, centos has had to be rebooted a few
times, I have no intention of changing my mail servers off RH9 because  i
couldnt break the damn thing if i tried its so stable.


>
> 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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