[Mimedefang] pre install question

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Oct 2 20:31:01 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Raymond Norton wrote:

> I have been wanting to implement mimedefang for quite a while. Now with the
> deluge of spam we are getting I need to get it up and running yesterday. I
> am going to do a new install of Redhat 9.0. Since I have the luxury of
> starting from scratch I would like to be sure I install exactly what I need
> to support mimedefang. I am planning on installing everything recommended
> from the mimedefang-howto doc. Outside of not installing sendmail from the
> redhat rpm, what else should I be sure to include or exclude that would make
> the install easier.

The Red Hat 9 Sendmail RPM is just fine; it includes Milter.  Be sure to
install the sendmail-devel RPM.

Other than that, you just need the required Perl modules (and Perl, of course!)
and a compilation environment.

Regards,

David.



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