[Sysadmin] Migrating to ServerMatrix

Dean Mah dmah at shaw.ca
Fri Jun 18 14:15:46 CDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:05:19PM +0100, William Anderson wrote:
> Dean Mah wrote:
> >With the decision of what to get settled, I think that we should get
> >ready for how to get it there.  Let's start with a list of software
> >that we need to install and any lessons learned from the previous
> >migration.  I think sysadmin feels most comfortable with supporting
> >Debian so we can skip the O/S consideration.
> 
> I've just done a qmail+mailman install on a woody box, which was evil, but 
> I'm up the learning curve on it :)  I also have a vaguely sensible build 
> script for Apache if we go that route, but I'd suggest we go for Debian 3.0 
> woody with key backported packages from backports.org, unless performance 
> demands we recompile packages for fuller optimisation.

It should be noted that since qmail does not allow "milters" we will
need to recompile it with the DNS and SPF patches.

Dean



More information about the Sysadmin mailing list