I think you're missing the point. You can do the normal make install, then just choose which users' mail gets filtered. Having multiple installs of the SA program files is an administrative nightmare come time to upgrade.
Darren -----Original Message----- From: Johnny L. Wales [mailto:johnny@;mail.booksys.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:06 To: Chris Santerre Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer Fine, see if I contribute anymore to the list. The reason I don't want to install it sitewide is not only the concerns I listed about false-positives, but also because we're a tiny company who can't afford licensing fees for Razor, etc. Anyway, script is hereby public domain. If you don't like it, feel free to modify it as you see fit. On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Chris Santerre wrote: > I was excited, then I saw the script. :) > > This will install many instances of SA on the system. While it will work, it > just doesn't seem right. It would be better to install sitewide and then > just customize the calling of SA in users local procmail file. This way you > just have to copy the procmail and sendmail local config dir. Much less > storage taken up! > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johnny L. Wales [mailto:johnny@;mail.booksys.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer > > > Hi folks! > > I installed SpamAssassin on my own account here at work a couple weeks > ago, and saw how cool it was, and then I showed it to my boss. Then she > wanted it and mentioned it to the CEO. He wanted it, too. Then I brought > it up in a programmers meeting and lots of people wanted it. Still, we > don't want to install it on everyone's account. Why, you ask? Well, some > of our clients like to send (*coughannoyingcough*) flamboyantly flashy > HTML mail. Further, missing even 1 mail from a client would be > unacceptable. So, the secretaries who get the email from our clients don't > get spam protection, nor do our tech support people. Some sales people, > all managers, and all programmers do. > > Anyhoo, I wrote a little perl script that takes the name of a user and > automagically installs SpamAssassin for them. It's not quite ready for > primetime, but I thought I'd send in what I had and maybe get some > comments on it. Take a look, lemme know what you think. > > Thanks! > > -- > Johnny Wales > Book Systems, Inc. > -- Johnny Wales Book Systems, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
