RE: [AMaViS-user] documentation

So, i can't just copy my old master and main.cf to the new install?
i have to do them over?
I was running postfix 2, now i want to run postfix 2.2

Thanks


E. Falk wrote:
> Kern, Tom wrote:
>> Hi, i'm doing a rebuild of my entire postfix/amavis/sa server and I
>> was wondering what is the best documentation out there for doing
>> this? Originally i used scott L henderson's guide here-
>> http://www.freespamfilter.org/rh9config.html
>>=20
>> Its been awhile and i was wondering if this is still a good "how to"
>>=20
>> Thanks a lot
>>=20
>=20
> The wiki at http://www.flakshack.com/anti-spam/wiki/index.php
> describes the same setup for an OpenBSD system and is kept a little
> more up to=20
> date. If you're reasonably familiar with *nix systems, you will easily
> be able to adapt it for RH9. I've used this wiki to build numerous
> systems.=20
>=20
> The big difference is in software versions. The versions in the how-to
> you mentioned are very old. In general, SA and Amavisd-new are very
> good for backwards compatibility with config files. Postfix is not (it
> "upgrades" any existing main.cf and master.cf files on install - copy
> an old config file over after install and you're going to have a
> headache).=20
>=20
> If you followed the instructions as given in the RH9 how-to, you'd be
> fine. If you copied and pasted their example postfix master.cf, your
> system would periodically error out and lose e-mail from the queue
> because it couldn't find the "scache" service.
>=20
> Bottom line - if you're comfortable with your system and updating
> software, checking version differences, etc., you should be fine using
> the old how-to as a baseline and working from there. Even if not, you
> should get a pretty decently functioning system as long as you watch
> out for the postfix configs.
>=20
> Hope this helps,
>=20
> Evan
>=20
>=20
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