tor, 04.11.2004 kl. 18.42 skrev John Simonson: > We are having some trouble with a second installation of Squirrelmail and > would like some pointers on how > to get it working.
[...] I'm running SM 1.4.3a for a high school in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on RHAS3 update 3 - medium/heavy IBM server hardware (eServer x series 235, 1.5GB RAM, 45 GB RAID5, expandable), 1100+ users. It works perfectly, no problems (the Dutch would say: "draait allemaal als 'n zonnetje"). All accessible for all school members, internally and from the Internet. Since I'm both the architect as the chief mailadmin, I'd permit myself the following observations: - We choose the combination RedHat and IBM out of conviction and experience. Basically rock solid. Having said that: - RHAS3 is a bit like the proverbial parson's egg, good in parts. The basic OS and utilities such as gcc and Apache are top-top, keeping them up2date is essential, as security patches come along (though you might need to backtrack to previous versions - the latest kernel update is a disaster). - On the basis of several years of testing and production since RH 7.2, I've come to the conclusion that the following are utterly useless and have to be replaced by up to date, latest stable vendor software, (self-compiled, no rpms for the most, keep them to /usr/local where possible): - Openldap, replaced by OL 2.2.17, replicated, with all supporting software - BDB 4.2.52, Cyrus SASL 2.1.18, Openssl 0.9.7d - The MTA, replaced by Postfix 2.1.5 LDAP/SASL/TLS - The IMAP server, replaced by Courier IMAP 3.0.7/maildrop 1.7 with Maildir structure, LDAP/SASL/SSL/TLS - MySQL, replaced by 4.0.20 from source - Obviously Squirrelmail, since RH doesn't cater for that - A deal other stuff, including dspam 3.2, amavisd-new 2.1, Sophos SAV and Mailman 2.1.5. All (since this is a wider, 4-server, including NAS, setup) are utterly dependent on LDAP. And RedHat 3's (Fedora Core 2's too) whole LDAP setup sucks worse than rotten eggs. There are two philosophies, one: that one goes 100% with the vendor, like the OpenBSD and Debian Sarge (so-called stable) people do; two: that one realizes that there are necessarily areas where one has to help oneself. I'm an old SCO OpenServer 5/UnixWare 7 admin and used to getting "better" stuff to work on my rigs. Bottom line: 100% happy SquirrelMail users, 100% spam and virus-free, strict regime, minimum maintenance. --Tonni -- �Livet er ein gamp�, sa �yken. I can confirm this. mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.billy.demon.nl They love us, don't they, They feed us, won't they ... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
