I had this question myself when first trying
SA, but wound up bending the ear of a friendly
sysadmin. Can we make this a FAQ or get it
added to the documentation?
-faisal
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 04:51 PM, Matthew Cline wrote:
> On Sunday 10 March 2002 02:18 pm, Will Yardley wrote:
>> i have something that's both a question and a request... from
>> what i've
>> seen in the archives, it's not terribly easy to install spamassassin
>> without root access.
>
>> From the README (http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README):
>
> These steps assume the following, so substitute as necessary:
> - Your UNIX login is "user"
> - Your home directory is /home/user
> - The location of the procmail executable is /usr/bin/procmail
>
> 1. Uncompress the SpamAssassin archive
>
> 2. Move/rename the created SpamAssassin directory where you want to
> permanently place it in your user directory:
> mv Mail-SpamAssassin-2.1 ~/bin/SpamAssassin
>
> 3. Make SpamAssassin as normal ("perl Makefile.PL", "make")
>
> 4. If you already use procmail, skip to step 6. If not, ensure
> procmail
> is installed using "which procmail" or install it from
> www.procmail.org.
>
> 5. Create a .forward file in your home directory containing the below
> lines:
>
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user"
>
> 6. Edit or create a .procmailrc file in your home directory containing
> the below lines. If you already have a .procmailrc file, add the lines
> to the top of your .procmailrc file:
>
> :0fw
> | /home/user/bin/SpamAssassin/spamassassin -P -c
> /home/user/bin/SpamAssassin/rules
>
> The above line filters all incoming mail through SpamAssassin
> and tags
> probable spam with a unique header. If you would prefer to have spam
> blocked and saved to a file called caughtspam in your home directory
> instead of passed through and tagged, append this directly below the
> above lines:
>
> :0:
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> caughtspam
>
> 7. Now, you should be ready to send some test emails and ensure
> everything
> works as expected. First, send yourself a test email that
> doesn't contain
> anything suspicious. You should receive it normally, but there
> will be a
> header containing X-Spam-Status: No. If you are only tagging
> your spam,
> send yourself an obvious spam mail and check to be sure it is marked as
> spam. If your test emails don't get through to you, immediately rename
> your .forward file until you figure out cause of the the
> problem, so you
> don't lose incoming email.
>
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