After trying to install Spamassasasin 3.0.2 using the rpmbuild withour success, I have managed to install it using perl Makefile.PL, make, make install and it seems to have been largely sucessful except it no longer seems to be able to find my local.cf (see another thread on this forum).
Now I think that the cause is that somehow the path has been damaged, see the data below: It used to look like this...... ---------------------- Spam detection software, running on the system "mailserver.softfish.com.au", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see @@CONTACT_ADDRESS@@ for details. Content preview: Looking for not expensive high-quality software? We might have just what you need. Windows XP Professional 2002 $50 [...] Content analysis details: (9.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- ------------------------------------------------ -- 4.2 MIME_BOUND_DD_DIGITS Spam tool pattern in MIME boundary 0.0 RCVD_BY_IP Received by mail server with no name 0.6 RCVD_HELO_IP_MISMATCH Received: HELO and IP do not match, but should 1.5 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used for HELO 2.2 FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 'From' yahoo.com does not match 'Received' headers 0.5 INFO_TLD URI: Contains an URL in the INFO top-level domain The original message was not completely plain text, and may be unsafe to open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus, or confirm that your address can receive spam. If you wish to view it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor. ------------------------ but now it looks like...... ------------------------------ SPAM: Spam detection software, running on the system "_HOSTNAME_", has SPAM: identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message SPAM: has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label SPAM: similar future email. If you have any questions, see SPAM: _CONTACTADDRESS_ for details. SPAM: SPAM: Content preview: _PREVIEW_ SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (_SCORE_ points, 5 required) SPAM: SPAM: " pts rule name description" SPAM: ---- ---------------------- ------------------------------------------ -------- SPAM: __HAS_MIMEOLE (1.0 points) Found a X-MimeOLE header SPAM: __MSGID_OK_DIGITS (1.0 points) Message-ID =~ /\d{10}/ SPAM: __CT (1.0 points) Found a Content-Type header SPAM: __OE_MUA (1.0 points) X-Mailer =~ /\bOutlook Express [456]\./ SPAM: __HAS_X_PRIORITY (1.0 points) Found a X-Priority header SPAM: __HAS_SUBJECT (1.0 points) Found a Subject header SPAM: INVALID_DATE (1.0 points) Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) SPAM: __HAS_OUTLOOK_IN_MAILER (1.0 points) X-Mailer =~ /Microsoft (CDO|Outlook|Office Outlook)\b/ SPAM: __HAS_MSMAIL_PRI (1.0 points) Found a X-MSMail-Priority header SPAM: __ANY_OUTLOOK_MUA (1.0 points) X-Mailer =~ /^Microsoft Outlook\b/ SPAM: __MIME_VERSION (1.0 points) Found a MIME-Version header SPAM: __NEXTPART_ALL (1.0 points) Content-Type =~ /NextPart/ SPAM: __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY (1.0 points) Content-Type =~ /boundary/i SPAM: __HAS_X_MAILER (1.0 points) Found a X-Mailer header SPAM: __UPPERCASE_25_50 (1.0 points) BODY: __UPPERCASE_25_50 SPAM: SUBJ_ALL_CAPS (1.0 points) Subject is all capitals SPAM: DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 (1.0 points) Date: is 3 to 6 hours before Received: date -------------------------- Any ideas? Paul. --------------------------- Paul Grenda __ Manager /. \/| Soft Fish \__/\| 6 Moorhouse Street Richmond Victoria, Australia 3121 0418 534 764 [EMAIL PROTECTED]