Woo Hoo - that's a good trick and good intel. Thinking ... Won't it
still try to use /usr/share/spamassassin for rules and
/var/lib/spamassassin for updates and /etc/mail/spamasassin for
configuration and so forth? Can't do that without root access. I'm
thinking out-loud here ... Thanks.
Andy Figueroa
Justin Mason wrote:
Andy Figueroa writes:
I don't believe you can install SpamAssassin successfully in your home
directory. It would be a huge hack job to set up and maintain, and
certainly against your ISP's policy.
Actually, it's quite easy to install in your home dir; you install
perl into ~/perl , and then install SpamAssassin and the other perl
modules using that perl and they'll all "make install" into ~/perl
too. I've done this a few times.
Of course, most low-end hosting packages where you don't get root
privs won't allow you to run long-running daemons like spamd, so
it's pointless :(
--j.
