At Sat Jun 28 02:28:04 2003, Brad wrote: > > I am upgrading a Red Hat 7.3 mail server to Red Hat 9 and am exploring > SPAM-filtering software for it. A Spamassassin RPM comes with the Red Hat > release and I am looking for an easy Howto to set it up. All the > documentation that I have seen so far require you to play with mail transport > modules and edit mysterious esoteric configuration files.
The first thing to check is whether or not your Red Hat installation is using procmail to deliver mail to your inbox. If it is, you should just be able to add a call to spamassassin (or spamc, if you're running spamd) to your .procmailrc file. The RH 7.3 box I've just checked certainly seems to be pre-configured for procmail (though I don't receive mail on it, so I can't check that it works). > A quick search on Google found that there are several GUI front-ends and > wizards for the Windows version of Spamassassin, which would streamline the > installation considerably. Are there any such GUI environments for Linux? Or > are we still confined to arcane editing of configuration files? You shouldn't need to do any configuring of SpamAssassin immediately - the defaults are fine to start off with. Once you've got some experience of using it, you may want to make some tweaks, but it really isn't that difficult to edit the text files. And I'm sure no one would mind if you asked here. Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
