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Jason Williams wrote:
Good morning everyone.
I wanted to ask a couple of quick questions about installing SA and running spamd.
From what i've read, I have two options to install SA: use perl -MCPAN or download the source and install it.
My first question is about perl -MCPAN. I have only used this a few times and im still learning it. If I decide to install SA using perl -MCPAN, after I have installed the package through perl -MCPAN, do I need to navigate to the directory (/root/.cpan/mail-spamassassin...) and run the setup from within that directory?
Reason I ask is when I was testing SA awhile ago, I downloaded it via MCPAN and ended up having to navigate to the directory where it was downloaded and run perl Makefile.pl, make and make install...
If you run "perl -MCPAN -e shell" you will get a CPAN shell (installing 20 mb of perl modules in your hard disk) where you can type in expample "install Mail::SpamAssassin" and all the job will be done by CPAN. At the end you will have installed the package, with the binarie in a path executable directory and the configuration under /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
You won't need anything else.
Can someone clear that up for me?
Lastly, in regards to using spamd/spamc. For the most part, all I need to do is move the executables to where I want them, and then run spamd in the background (using the -d flag?). Finally, configure postfix to call for spamc instead of spamassassin, correct?
I have used before postfix but now i use Exim so i cannot help you with the configuration file. What i can tell you is that you have to run spamd from rc.local at the boot time to have running the spamassassin daemon. You should run spamd like "spam -d -a". The -d flag means "daemonize" and the -a flag means "Use auto-whitelists".
For your own interes you can take a look a my configuration for email at http://www.surestorm.com/data/
In this folder you'll find config files for Exim, Postfix, SpamAssassin and more, but the SpamAssassin configuration will only involve Exim and SpamAssassing. I have never configured Postfix with SpamAssassin
Just want to make sure I have all my bases covered.
Thanks for all the help.
Thanks to you ;-)
Jason
jonathan
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