Hello René and anyone else who has run SA on Windows under Cygwin,
I've been dabbling a little with this, having not used Cygwin
beforehand, and I think I have grasped the basic operational principles
of installing/building modules and SA, but it appears it may turn out to
be a waste of time and fruitless venture; by that I mean it seems to be
a pain or impossible to get various modules working including things
like DCC and Razor. Is this indeed the case?
I think however René earlier said he had a 'full' install working?
Bearing in mind I am only a Windows XP person, whose grasp of 'command
line' operations previously went no further than basic .bat files or
using 'run' and typing 'cmd' 'ok', I need a relatively guaranteed and
specific guide on how to get all the above working, should it in fact be
possible.
As usual, I've found various bits and pieces on the net on SA under
Cygwin, but none fully comprehensive or seemingly up to date.
My thinking is; I only want to pursue SA under Cygwin if I can at least
achieve a better and more up to date equivalent of the Sourceforge
September 2007 package of SAwin32/SAProxy. Otherwise, I may as well
revert to using Popfile which is an active project although just a naive
bayesian training method. (I think.)
I appreciate I will also need to install some other bits to pipe the
emails into SA and out to a desktop email client; presumably this will
involve something like Procmail or Fetchmail which were mentioned
recently. Maybe even a Windows mail server. I do appreciate all this may
be considered highly excessive for the sake of filtering personal email,
but I like a project as long as I know how to do it specifically and can
be assured it will work.
For info, here's what that SAwin32/SAProxy package claims/claimed to do:
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SpamAssassin POP3 Proxy for Win32 (SAproxy) v3.2.3.3
Includes SpamAssassin v3.2.3, DCC v1.3.58 and Vipul's Razor v2.84.
This tool is a free and powerful spam filter for any Microsoft
Windows mail client (Outlook Express, Eudora, Microsoft Outlook, etc.).
It supports SSL, but it is for POP3 accounts only and will not work with
IMAP, Exchange, Lotus, web-based (such as Hotmail) and other non-POP3
accounts.
It includes SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.apache.org/)
and fully supports online spam databases
DCC(http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/) and Razor
(http://razor.sf.net/).
This build is based on free SAproxy v1.2 and is not associated with
Stata Labs (which no longer sells SAproxy Pro).
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So, can an up to date and painless build of that be achieved under
Cygwin? If so, which specific Cygwin and CPAN modules (and versions)
will work with SA 3.2.5 or at least SA 3.2.4?
Thanks in advance;
if you feel it is most likely going to be a pain and an unknown
quantity, just tell me so, and I won't frustrate myself with attempting
this line of thought any further.
I appreciate one or two posters have already said / implied this.
Lee
UK
