I don't consider myself highly experienced, and can put together my newbie notes for getting SA going on Debian Linux if you want them. [It is considerably easier on Debian because one just "apt-get install spamassassin", reads the readme files that came with the Debian pack, makes a few small tweeks, and you're up and running.
To answer your questions re: procmail In leu of using procmail, I am running SA through a sendmail filter ie, a milter (from www.milter.org) If you go there and search (in the upper right corner of the home page) on spamassassin, there are several references to running spamassassin on BSD. Regarding finding information on procmail and whether or not you need procmail, procmail is an LDA (local delivery agent, and is configurable to do many cool things to redirect mail to different users and programs such as spamassassin. If you have procmail installed to your machine, man procmailex will provide many fairly comprehendable examples of how it is used. With that said, you need to call spamassassin from somewhere and direct mail through it so that the mail can be ranked and tagged if neccary. This can be accomplished by declaring procmail as your local delivery agent in sendmail and placing a 3 line directive in your procmailrc file to push the mail through SA, -or- calling procmail from your sendmail .forware or ailas files -or- if you prefer not to use procmail, and are using sendmail, you can use a milter. There is some help at www.milter.org regarding using SA with a milter on BSD. I chose the milter because I relay mail for some domains and check it for spam while relaying it. Ie I accept mail on the domain's behalf and forward it to the local-delivery mail server at their corporate office; therefore the mail is not delivered locally. Since I am calling SA from a milter and not an LDA like procmail, the mail is still ranked by SA and marked as spam if needed as it crosses my mail server to the customer's domain. [as a note I just had the custome add a higher priority MX record to their domain directing traffic to my mail server. If my server is not available, the mail still goes to their existing mail server, it just does not get scrubbed by SA] Quentin Krengel Krengel Technology Inc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Doug Young Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:28 AM To: Quentin Krengel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] dependencies / pre-requisites for installation in FreeBSD > I empathize with you... > Do you have a README in /usr/share/doc/spamassassin? No I don't .... thats the very first place I looked > Have you checked out the doc's here? > http://spamassassin.taint.org/doc.html > And that is the second place I looked .... no info that I could find in answer to my questions. I realize that its normal for open source docs to cater for highly experienced users rather than someone trying to figure stuff out for the first time ...EXTREMELY frustrating !!!!! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Doug Young > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:30 PM > To: Justin Mason > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] dependencies / pre-requisites for installation > in FreeBSD > > > > > Would someone please enlighten me on dependencies / pre-requisites > > > for installation in FreeBSD. The 'official' documentation isn't > particularly > > > explicit about this stuff .... eg 'procmail' is mentioned but > > > without > saying > > > whether or not its essential, & no info provided on whether > > > GNUmake > > > is required or if standard BSD 'make' is OK. > > > > I thought we were quite good about it, in the README file! > > > > procmail is essential *if* you're using (a) SpamAssassin for local > > delivery, (b) not using a milter, and (c) not using a Mail::Audit > > script instead. So probably yes. > > > > BSD make is OK, if Perl generally uses it to build Perl modules. > > SpamAssassin is just anotehr Perl module in that respect. > > > Back to this stuff again ..... searched high & low but definitely > nothing on this system even vaguely resembling a README file for > spamassassin. I have procmail installed but having major problems > comprehending the setup .... would appreciate info on any 'simple > english' HOWTo > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
