Preferred Distribution

[Matt Kettler]

Gareth wrote:
> 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.
> 

Redhat 9 should be fine.. There's some limitations, ie: some of the newer
sendmail features aren't supported, but nothing horrible.

Redhat 6 on the other hand is a lot older, and would be quite troublesome to run
MailScanner on.