Re: OS Recommendations?

On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:28, Damien Hull wrote:
> Here's the short list
> 1. CentOS
> 2. Postfix instead of sendmail
> 3. dspam

Seconded heartily. CentOS is a great product. And using yum (or even apt for
RPM) makes life so much easier.

Postfix is dead easy to set up, and rarely (if ever) has security releases due
to it being so secure in the first place. In fact, in the recent Coverity
scans (http://scan.coverity.com), they only found two bugs that needed
fixing. Not bad.

DSPAM is a great statistical filter. It's easy to add to postfix, and will
even pass the messages to ClamAV for you. The docs can be a bit sparse, so
download the source and look for the doc/postfix.txt file. Implement the
configuration that starts with the heading "INTEGRATING DSPAM AS A CONTENT
FILTER" as goes through the paragraph that starts "You're now good to go!"
That's by far the easiest way to configure things.

Contrary to the docs, you don't always have to compile from source. Look
around for an RPM first. :)

j

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