From: Brian O'Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I am new to mailing lists and Linux so please excuse some of the
> mistakes I know I am going to make.
>
> I just started working at this company and their mail server was
> already setup. Recently my boss was complaining that he is
> receiving a lot of spam now. I saw that the last release came out
> around October 25, 2004 and that's the day I started work, so I
> figured Spam Assassin should probably be upgraded. I downloaded the
> tar file and extracted it. Then I untared the file and began the
> installation: perl Makefile.PL, make, and then make install. I
> think when I tried to run spamd I got an error message about
> Required module Storable not found!. I force installed the module
> after finding someone else's solution to the problem. Then I got
> an error about bayes db version 0 is not able to be used,
> aborting!.
You need to install all of the required Perl modules including
Storable. You can install them direct from CPAN like this:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
If you have never run this before, it will take you through a
configuration routine before giving you the "cpan>" prompt. Once you
have the "cpan>" prompt, you can install modules with the command
"install modulename". I would suggest you install these modules:
Storable
Digest::SHA1
HTML::Parser
MIME::Base64
DB_File
Net::DNS
Net::SMTP
Mail::SPF::Query
Time::HiRes
Note that these module names are case-sensitive.
You can also install and upgrade SpamAssassin from CPAN the same way.
Just install the module "Mail::SpamAssassin".
Once you have these modules installed, try SpamAssassin again and see
what happens.
You should also read the README, UPGRADE, and INSTALL files:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc.html
(These are also included in the tar file you downloaded)
Bowie
