Re: spamass-milter and RHEL 2.1?

[Thomas Cameron]

Patrick -

Thanks for the info.  I am going to test with the "stock" sendmail over
the next couple of days.  In a perfect world, I would be able to use the
stock version so as to remain supported by RH.

TC

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 18:35 -0500, patrick main wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
>  I run several Redhat 7.3 based spam filtering boxes all using
> spamass-milt for spamassassin. As best i know 2.1 enterprise has
> many shared features with the redhat 7.x series.
>   However, The sendmail with Redhat 7.2 and 7.3 did not work as
> shipped. All my production servers are based on Redhat's source
> sendmail rpm for redhat 8.0 (update version of course) from which
> i built a custom rpm for redhat 7.3 ... I had to build the binary
> RPMs with ipv6 support disabled. Once i did this the total package
> became very stable. My kernels are also custom built so no IPv6
> support in the kernel may have caused problems with my first sendmail
> RPMs which did have ipv6 support. The whole building rpm process
> was not too bad. I vaguely recall editing the spec file so it would
> build on my 7.3 server. Just make sure the correct patch files are
> applied.
>   For those interested, the same source rpm would also build on
> redhat 6.2 servers but i finally got the last of those changed out.
>   I'll probably be moving my current 7.3 derived servers to one of
> the redhat 4.0 enterprise clone offerings in the next year or so.
>   -Patrick-