> From: "Steve Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Chris Bartram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Newbie help-RH7.2+Postfix > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:46:10 -0700 > > The easiest way to install SA would be to run: > > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::SpamAssassin' > > and answer yes to any questions about following dependencies. Once that's > done, type: > > man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf > > and you'll get most of what you need to know to configure SA. > > HTH, > St-
The above is what worked for me and I'm a newbie as well. I did have a problem with my firewall (ipchains) setup preventing part of this process from working (lwp I believe), so I disabled ipchains for the install rather than trying to figure out which ports to open up etc. I hadn't heard about CPAN before (see www.cpan.org) but after seeing it work, I was impressed. It's a way to automatically download and install Perl software. After everything automagically downloaded and compiled, I ran the tests as per the install doc. I then created a .procmailrc in my home directory also as per the install doc. In my case I specified a different filename for the tagged messages to go to and then updated the folder list on my imap mail client to include that to monitor what was going there. After seeing some messages I created a user_prefs file in my home directory to modify how the messages were being tagged. In my case I didn't want HTML based messages to be rendered unreadable. The stuff I added to my user_prefs file is below for reference. rewrite_subject 0 defang_mime 0 report_header 1 use_terse_report 1 My environment may differ from yours, I don't have a lot of users to worry about or a lot of mail to process. I can't help with running spamassassin systemwide via the more efficient demon process but if you can manage individual .procmailrc configurations the above may be of some help. --Don ------------------------------------------------------- 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
