Preferred Distribution

[Gareth]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 21:21, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
> > People should stop using RedHat 6. It has got to be almost 8 years old!
> 
> Yeah, clearly they should be on 6.3 by now :)
> 
> Quite frankly, I'd be surprised if modern MailScanner would even run on RedHat
> 6.x.. Those releases used perl 5.005. It might run, but a lot of add-ons won't.
> 
> I know the mailscanner RPM claims it only needs >= 5.005, but I know
> SpamAssassin 3.0.0 and higher require perl 5.6 or higher.
> 
> As of 3.46 HTML::Parser requires perl 5.6 or higher.

I am still using Redhat 9 on my home server. I am running Spamassassin
3.18 fine with Pyzor, Razor, FuzzyOCR etc...

I upgraded Perl to 5.8 and then reinstalled all the modules.
I think one program failed to run afterwards but I just edited the per
to make it point to the old perl.
I had problems getting a couple of modules to install so I think SPF
checks are currently not operational but thats it.