Jay Lee wrote:
Mark Williams wrote:
I have just installed spamassassin v3.0.4 in a test environment (which
is a mirror of the live environment) and have a number of questions,
which I can not see within the manuals/support documentation.
Firstly, this is my configuration:
Server: Linux (RH9.0), with spamassassin installed from
spamassassin.org web site using "make" etc.... (not RPM's). This
machine then runs both IMAP and POP3 for clients. MTA is sendmail
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Surely your not going live with a distribution as old and unsupported as
RedHat 9! Do you want to become a spam zombie? I urge you strongly to
look at moving up to RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, CentOS 4 or a recent
Fedora release. Also, you really should stick with the RPMS, it makes
management and future upgrades much smoother.
Please don't say things like that. RedHat 9 can be perfectly secure and
reliable. I have seen new installs of RedHat turned into IRC Bots
overnight by virue of their poor use of RPMs.
I would have good faith in a server running a three year old kernel,
locked down by an Admin who built his own sources, and knew his s*&t
inside and out. I would have no faith in a server that was running the
"latest" distro/RPM/package just because it was "the latest".
If you rely on the version number of your distro and the build skills of
an unknown party to be the extent of your security awareness, you are
certain to end up on someones RBL.
DAve
