Any advice for a new server?

[Res]

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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, mail wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been running a mail server with sendmail/ MailScanner/ ClamAV/
> Mailman/ Squirrelmail/ combo for the past 7 years.  It is now time to
> migrate my accounts to a brand new server.  I was using Redhat9, but now
> I'm 99% sure that I will go with Gentoo.  I am also 90% sure that I will

You want to make sure you have several years of support, for this reason
I last used a RH OS on servers at RH9, I had one RH9 box for for up to 2 
years after RH stopped supporting it, because it was unbreakable.
I have since moved it to the same as other servers, being Slackware, as 
close to true sources as you'll get (hence why there is no 20+ updates 
relased every week like RH/Fedora/Debian etc), version support is at 
least 5 years or more. Also extremely reliable and stable, a good time to 
try it as Slackware 12.0 was released overnight.


> stay with sendmail/ ClamAV/ Squirrelmail and 100% sure to stay with
> MailScanner/ Mailman. I don't have a whole lot of accounts so I do have

Yep, stay with them all, but make sure you use the latest versions of 
them.


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Cheers
Res
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