[Mimedefang] pre install question

Raymond Norton admin at lctn.org
Thu Oct 2 18:52:00 EDT 2003


> First, use the sendmail that you have. The RPM's starting with RH8 come
with
> milter enabled. And if you happened to have an older Red Hat (like me),
you
> can download the latest SRPM from Rawhide, tweak the SPEC file and add
milter
> to the build file and make a custom RPM having milter.
>
> You'll want to get the latest SpamAssassin from the SA website. Get the
> tarball, run "rpmbuild -ta xxxx.tar.gz" (subsituting appropriate filename)
and
> you now have an RPM tuned to your system for SA.
>
> Sign up with Red Hat Network to get access to their update service, or use
> Ximian's Red Carpet (free) and use that to keep your system updated with
the
> latest security patches (RPM's).
>
> Note that if you put anything on your system that's not in an RPM, up2date
> won't know about it and will happily overwrite it the next time that
package
> has a security issue.


Redhat 9.0 comes with spamassassin. Should I keep it or download from SA's
site as recommended?


Sounds like I should just do a normal  redhat 9.0 server install???





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