Lucian Wischik wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to use spamassasin personally on a lab-administered > linux machine. Having some problems: > > (1) When installing, I run "make", and it tries to > cc -D... -lgdbm -ldbm ... > and says "cannot find -lgdbm" "ld returned 1 exit status" > I blindly tried removing the -lgdbm option and it complained about > -ldbm. I removed that as well, and the "make" command completed okay. > Is this okay?
Probably. These were the flags used to compile perl on your system, and for some reason those libraries are no longer installed. I wouldn't worry about it. > (2) Installation step 4 asked whether I'm already using procmail. How can > I tell? I know that procmail is installed on the system, but I've never > used it personally. I don't have a .procmailrc, nor a .forward. Is that > what this question is asking? > > (3) I tried creating both a .forward file and a .procmailrc as > suggested. But mail doesn't get through. So I deleted the .forward file > and left .procmailrc as it was. Now mail does get through. However... I > wrote myself an honest test message, and a spam-like message. Both got > through to appear in my inbox, but the X-Spam-Status header didn't appear, > and instead both had the header > X-Authentication-Warning: dotto.cs.unibo.it: ljw1004 owned process doing -bs > (my username is ljw1004). > > What's up? What should I do? Sorry to be so helpless... I've only ever > installed one unix program before so don't really know what to try. Many > thanks in advance for any help. Sounds like you need to contact the sysadmins of your mail system. SpamAssassin is not really good for setting up by personal users, and I doubt the University admins would look kindly on everyone running individual copies. Matt. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
