[Mimedefang] Conceptual Stage of setting up email gateway

Peter A. Cole peteracole at bigpond.com
Fri Sep 17 18:51:35 EDT 2004


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:15:18 -0600
Lucas Albers <admin at cs.montana.edu> wrote:

> 
> Peter A. Cole said:
> > On my home mail server here (Debian Sarge), I have 5 email accounts all
> > from my ISP, so I have to POP them.
> >
> > I use fetchmail, which delivers them to sendmail, and therefore
> > mimedefang/spamassassin/clamav and then to my maildirs.
> 
> <rant>
> imho it's easier to setup a new server running debian sarge then fedora
> core 2. Debian resolves all the mimedefang dependencies straight from the
> main debian archive. Fedora Core 2 has mimedefang but it get's it from 3rd
> party repositories.
> You also have a longer release cycle with debian than with fedora.
> Just my 2 cents.
> </rant>
> 
> -- 
> Luke Computer Science System Administrator
> Security Administrator,College of Engineering
> Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana
> 
I must totally agree Luke.

I tried Fedora once, went back to Sarge. Maybe I didn't give it enough time, but it's so easy to type apt-get install, or dselect if you're not sure of the name.

Pete



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