To improve RedHat's product I suggest you include a tool such as "MailScanner". This is a good tool for scanning incoming mail for viruses and spam. It doesn't do any of the scanning itself it instead relies on 'plug-in' virus scanners such as Sophos, McAfee, AVP etc. It can also interface with SpamAssasin to catch SPAM. Having a tool like this enabled by default raises the value of RHL relative to your competition.
I agree. Sendmail Milter or Postfix filter "out of the box" SPAM filtering capability would be very nice indeed. Or at a very minimum, please include additional CPAN RPM's so installation of MailScanner, SpamAssasin and Ripul's Razor is much easier.
SpamAssassin should be easy to install on top of Red Hat Linux 7.3. What further CPAN stuff is missing? Thanks, Florian La Roche
Can the following perl CPAN modules be included in future versions of Red Hat? http://www.spamassassin.org/ Mail::SpamAssassin Net::DNS http://search.cpan.org/doc/SIMON/Mail-Audit-2.1/Audit/Razor.pm Mail::Audit Mail::Audit::Razor Razor::Agent Razor::Client
I strongly agree! Many Linux computers are used as mail servers. Our main concern with them is to trim down spam and MS virus. A good, (eventually external) filter would be of great help.
"Me too" - SpamAssassin or similar would be really nice to have included in the distribution.
If future public beta versions look good, SpmaAssassin will be included. We haven't yet decided on Razor yet. greetings and thanks, Florian La Roche
This may be helpful when Red Hat decides to add SpamAssassin to the distro. RPM packages including an SRPM for reference. http://www.hughes-family.org/spamassassin/
Just tried to install spamassassin-2.31-8.i386.rpm that has a build date of June 28 for RedHat Rawhide. Gave up in tracking down dependencies at rpmfind. (No trouble getting perl-Net-DNS-0.23-4, but the rest eluded me.) This is a suggestion that when posting RPM's like this that one verifies that the required RPM's are either likely on a user's system, or are available at rpmfind or some place else that might be mentioned. I'm running at "up2date" RedHat 7.3 system.
spamassassin is included now greetings, Florian La Roche