Upgrade Recommendations

[Mike Kercher]

Why not move on up to RHEL 4?  I wouldn't worry about RH supporting
SA3.x personally.  The benefit of spamassassin outweighs RH by a long
shot.

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Shortt, Kevin
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Upgrade Recommendations
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone, 
> 
> I need to upgrade my current setup. I am looking for some 
> advice from a higher level. (at first anyway)
> 
> This is what I have:
> 
>    O/S:  RHEL 3
>    (all rpms below..)
>    MailScanner-perl-MIME-Base64-3.05-5
>    sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4
>    sendmail-cf-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.4
>    mailscanner-4.36.4-1
>    perl-MailTools-1.50-1
>    spamassassin-2.55-3.4
> 
> 
> 
> I purchase an entitlement from RH to be able easily update my server.
> However, RH does NOT support sendmail 8.13.x on RHEL3...
> NOR spamassasin 3.0.x on RHEL3 either.
> 
> I am willing to upgrade both manually against RH support.
> 
> 
> My question:
> 
> Which should I tackle first.??
> Spamassasin...then sendmail...then MS?
> Any caveats that I need to be aware of?...(I know there is 
> care from SA
> 2.55 to 3.0.)
> Is anyone else in my same position?  I mean I am getting a 
> lot spam through. Perhaps I only need to fix what I have.
> 
> 
> I would love any and all opinions on a course of action.
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance. This is great mailling list.
> 
> -k
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