Any advice for a new server?

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On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:02 +1000, Res wrote:
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> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, mail wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > 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.
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> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Res
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Thanks to everyone so far for the insight!  I think I will use Gentoo.
I got somewhat burned by using RH9 the last time.  Almost as soon as I
installed it and got it up and running, they stopped supporting it. I am
really happy with portage as my update path.  I don't mind compiling
stuff from source because I will be doing that anyway for many things.
Also I will not be installing any windowing or desktop applications at
all.  I can't wait to get the Mailscanner book and dive in!

rick