On Thursday April 06 2006 3:31 pm, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Ask List wrote: > > We can not seem to come to an agreement on the best operating system > > to run spam assassin. So we have decided to post this question to the > > mailing list so we can have other opinions. I realize everyone will > > have a different opinion on the subject and some will have none at > > all, linux is linux and unix is unix. So I would like to hear users > > experiences using different operating systems. > > Pros/Cons/Problems/Headaches/etc. The operating systems I'm most > > interested in are Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSDs, and > > OpenSolaris. > > Hopefully this doesn't start a flame-war, but it is likely to become a > large thread in any case. Ah well... here we go! :) > > I have been using RedHat and Fedora, but am now in the process of > transferring my servers over to CentOS. It is a direct rebuild of > RedHat Enterprise Linux, so it has stability and a slower upgrade > cycle which is very nice for a server. I have run Courier-MTA, > Apache, Bind, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Samba, etc and it has been very > easy to deal with and extremely stable. > > -- > Bowie
We've used CentOS 3 and 4 in a production environment for the past 21 months, and they're rock-solid. Our mail server is built of CentOS 3.6, and includes sendmail, spamassassin, and clamav, pulled together by MailScanner, administered in part by MailWatch, and archived by Synonym. Installation of these packages was, for the most part trivial. We did encounter some configuration proplems from time to time (mostly our fault), but the communities were there with help for us when called upon. We've shown our system to admins of Windows-only shops, for instance, and they're duly impressed. Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
