MailScanner on a Postfix Mailgate

[Scott Silva]

on 9-25-2008 1:56 AM Jay Chandler spake the following:
> Howdy, folks; been a while since I've posted here.
> 
> For those who may or may not recall, I used to administer MailScanner 
> (among other things) for $WeTeachYuppies.  I moved on to corporate life 
> about a year ago, and have been doing all right with mail filtering via 
> DNS up until now.
> 
> My issue is that MailScanner at the old job (as well as MailScanner at 
> home) run on FreeBSD, which is relatively straightforward.  Running it 
> on CentOS 5.2 (our platform of choice at work) seems to be a dependency 
> nightmare, with it being incredibly easy to stomp the MailScanner 
> installation into oblivion.
> Short of putting a gun to someone's head and demanding FreeBSD 
> mailgates, is there a good solution to this problem?  I can't be the 
> first person to say "Wait a second, this is nightmarish" about the 
> upkeep of MS under Linux; I've been running my home install with minimal 
> maintenance under FreeBSD for two years, yet I can't seem to keep a 
> system together under Linux for more than one patch cycle without 
> something important dying...
> 
It can be as easy as this;
http://yum.vanderkooij.org/
Just don't run the yum updates automatically. Subscribe to the announce list 
and run updates at quiet times.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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