From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply from Warren:
>
> Kenneth,
> Thanks for alerting to me to this. I tried to post to the list, but it
> appears to be extremely slow or down at the moment or something.
>
> jdow wrote:
> >> Justin Mason wrote:
> >>
> >>> fyi, if you're using Fedora Core --
> >>> http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000715.html
> >>>
> >>> totally unconfirmed, but worth noting in case that really is the case.
>
> We have never shipped spamassassin with a changed default level. I have
> absolutely no idea where this is coming from. He is either using some
> 3rd party repository or some other software is changing his local.cf.
> This is not caused by Fedora AFAICT.
>
> >>
> >>
> >> My copy of Fedora Core 4 has "required_hits 5" in local.cf using the
> >> distribution's RPM for Spamassassin. rpm -Va made no complaints about
> >> the file. Just to be sure, I uninstalled it, checked that local.cf
> >> was gone, and reinstalled it via yum. Standard defaults.
> >>
> >> It looks to me like something other than Fedora Core was messing with
> >> his config.
> >
> >
> > Naw, the basic SpamAssassin install for FC4 is, as I remarked, borked.
> > I could not make it work satisfactorily. Too many pieces were broken,
> > in the wrong places, or just plain missing. The know-it-alls who set
> > it up seem to have had to properly pee on it to make it their own. Rip
> > it out however you can with the rpm tool and install it, and 2.54 tonnes
> > of other required "stuff", via CPAN. It'll work a whole lot better.
>
> This is outright unsubstantiated FUD. The package works just as fine as
> upstream, and there have been no bug reports proving otherwise.
>
> It is also generally a bad idea to mix non-RPM installed stuff into an
> RPM installed system. You are certainly free to do whatever you want to
> your own system, but you live with needing to maintain it, remembering
> what version stuff is, and hoping a future package wont stomp on your
> non-package installed files. This is generally why most documentation
> recommends installing non-packaged stuff into /usr/local or /opt in
> order to avoid the chance of manually installed stuff conflicting or
> getting blown away.
>
> Warren Togami
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed FC4 virgin. SpamAssassin 3.0.4 was installed. SPF checks did
not function. Other checks failed as well. I forced it out of the system
installed via CPAN. It worked. What more can I say?
{^_^}
