Mark Our personal experience with various email servers has put us squarely in the qmail camp. There is a very good tutorial called "life with qmail" which talks you through in detail what is a bit of a mind numbing install otherwise. What I particularly like about it is its speed (very low system utilisation compared to sendmail etc) and pluggability.
Although I see you have had problems with SA we have not with qmail. Distro wise, you should probably go with what you are familiar with, personally I would use Fedora Core 6, if the box is pretty resource stretched then maybe Fedora Core 4 would be a better bet (I'd steer clear of Fedora 7 that is coming out today for time being) Martin On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:27 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote: > Here's one that might be interesting to a few people... > > I want to create a new server (initially a VMWare virtual machine) to > run as a dspam (anti-spam) mail server. I want to try dspam as it is > supposed to be much less power hungry than spamassassin (SA), and I am > having problems with SA elsewhere handling any reasonable load. > > Since this is a fresh install I'm currently stuck through having too > many choices... > > Which distro should I start with? My preference would be Ubuntu Server > for familiarity reasons but no better reason than that. > Which mail server should I use? I use exim elsewhere but can't say I > particularly like it. Postfix? Other? > How do I glue it all together? > > -- > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 > 555 > Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 > 1LG > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
