Preferred Distribution

[Ken A]

Andrew MacLachlan wrote:
> I've got MailScanner working with postfix 2.4 and SA 3.2.0 on a virtualised Babbage Analytical Engine (I was having trouble getting parts for the original hardware)...

too lazy to turn the crank, huh? figures you are a postfix user! ;-)
Ken

> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gareth <list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Friday, 11 May, 2007 9:16:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Preferred Distribution
> 
> 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.
> 


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Ken Anderson
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