I think I'll have a play with Redhat 8 tomorrow as we have the CDs at work, last time I installed it I used Webmin to configure Postfix and it seemed fairly straightforward to get the basics working.
http://advosys.ca/papers/printable/postfix-filtering.html seems fairly idiot-proof for the spamassassin filtering? regards Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. van Ouwerkerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: RE: SPAM blockin software recommendations..... [bcc] > At 17:47 23-03-2003 +0000, you wrote: > > > I recommend qmail, which is not only highly secure - it has > > > NEVER had a security breach - but is also at least 4-5 times > > > as fast as Sendmail, and much, much easier to set up and configure. > > > >I know this question always stirs up a bit of a hornets nest amongst *nix > >users, but which distro would you suggest for someone with sod-all *nix > >knowledge looking to setup an MTA with spamassassin filtering? > > Really?? I don't see why it should.. > > If you like to do things the hard way (like /me) you should go for > Slackware. It's the best but also less friendly for Windows users. Pico is > wat comes as close to a gui as it gets.. for those of you who don't know > Pico, it's just as graphical as the good old edit on the DOS prompt. :-) > It even got some mouse support.. but who needs a mouse if you can do it > with tapping some keys.. right? > > More friendly distro's are RedHat, Suse both provide commercial support. I > think Mandrake provides commercial support too. If you feel more like a > free product then Debian is your distro. > Whatever you do don't use Linuxconf for setting up Sendmail, it's broke. > > > B. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
