[Mimedefang] RE: Installing MD on a Solaris 8 box?

[Wilco]

Hi,

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>>From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser at cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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>>I need to install MIMEDefang, SpamAssassin and ClamAV on a Solaris 8 box
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>>>From what I've seen, the gcc and perl versions are ancient, perl
>>is 5.005 and gcc is 2.95, so it seems I have to upgrade it.
>>sendmail is 8.11, I think I have to upgrade it too.
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>>Has anyone done it? are there any gotchas I should be aware of?
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Indeed, it can be done, and I have, using the SMC (sunfreeware.com) gcc.

But after a short while (about 2 installations and 1 upgrade) I started 
using the Blastwave (or CSW for short) packages (www.blastwave.org). 
Usually these packaged versions are available quite soon (quick enough 
for me at least) after a new release.
Blastwave, in my experience, offers newer packages than SMC does and 
they offer a download mechanism together with dependencies (a bit 
similar to apt in Debian Linux I suppose). For example: when you 
instruct it to install mimedefang it will by itself add the necessary 
Perl modules.
Pkg-get as well as the packages work quite well when you have the 
bandwidth, but do note that when you perform an upgrade it has to 
uninstall the old version of the package first, leaving you without a 
working mimedefang (and thus mailservice) during the entire upgrade. 
When a lot of packages need upgrading you are without mimedefang for a 
long time! (I call mimedefang through an inet-socket which allows me to 
choose another mimedefang instance on another server flexibly.)
I still also use the SMC packages though (i.e. gcc), in my experience 
they can be mixed.

Blastwave also offers a newer sendmail version (also for solaris 8 iirc) 
which includes milter-support, but I haven't used that myself.


My 2 cents,
Wilco