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[Glenn Steen]

2009/5/26 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
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> On 26/05/2009 17:12, Robert Lopez wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Julian Field
>> <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
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>> Let me back up. My senior administrator will approve my testing
>> MailScanner on any of RHEL, Debian, or Ubuntu and he insists we use
>> Postfix not Exim.
>> He also insists we must use Spamassassin, ClamAV, and Anomy.
>> Given those constraints, on which of those OS will MailScanner perform best?
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> I would go for RHEL as that is the main distribution I work with and
> build for. I can assist you with far more issues on RHEL than any other
> distribution. Both the Debian and Ubuntu builds are done by other people
> and, let's say, I have a few problems with the quality and timeliness of
> those builds.
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> I would get ClamAV from rpmforge (or packages.sw.be), and I always
> install my own build of SpamAssassin from my ClamAV+SpamAssassin package
> (you tell it not to install ClamAV when it asks you). I know nothing
> about Anomy, so you're on your own there.
>
Seerms like Anomy (http://mailtools.anomy.net/ or perhaps
http://freshmeat.net/projects/theanomymailsanitizer/) tries, or rather
tried, to do pretty much the same job that mailScanner does... Can't
really see any benefit in using that, and might get ... interesting...
trying to incorporate it:-). Anyway... it seems dead, so rather
pointless to use...?!

> Postfix is fine, I strongly recommend you use the latest beta of
> MailScanner as 4.76 had one or two minor Postfix problems which I have
> since fixed. I will release a new stable release of 4.77 on 1st July
> anyway, and that will be very close to the current beta as it is working
> so nicely.
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> Hope that helps you!
>
> If you have any problems, questions, requests or suggestions, please do
> get in touch straight away and I will help you as much as I can. Others
> here can help you with Postfix questions better than I can, as I use
> sendmail myself.
Well... We'll be here, day-job-willing:-)

> Jules
>

Cheers
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