Question about spamassasin

[Mike Kercher]

Forgive my terminology...perl gets upgraded :)

This is what I was referring to:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: MS not starting after SpamAssassin install


> At 01:26 22/05/2002, you wrote:
> >  I have Mailscanner running.  when I installed spamassassin I tried
running
> >./check_mailscanner and ./check_mailscanner.linux but they come up w/
> >this...
>
> In the process of installing SpamAssassin, your copy of Perl got upgraded
> too. The "old version hunting" that Perl does isn't quite enough for
> SpamAssassin to work. So you'll need to re-install SpamAssassin. Then it
> should go.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Question about spamassasin


> At 16:11 08/08/2002, you wrote:
> >Wasn't there talk a little while back about installing SA before
installing
> >MS due to the changes MS makes to perl?
>
> There was? What changes?
>
>
> >Mike
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:02 AM
> >Subject: Re: Question about spamassasin
> >
> >
> > > At 12:46 08/08/2002, you wrote:
> > > >I will try to add spamassasin to my working mailscanner.
> > > >Ive looked around but there is some things I cant figure
> > > >out.
> > >
> > > There are some notes in the Installation FAQ on the MailScanner web
site
> > > about installing and building SpamAssassin.
> > >
> > > >Should I use spamassin with sendmail or mailscanner?
> > >
> > > MailScanner.
> > >
> > > >With sendmail I think I have to go threw Milter?
> > >
> > > Ignore all that.
> > >
> > > >If I understand it right mailscanner will call for
> > > >spamassasin just like it does with AV-programs?
> > >
> > > No, it interfaces directly to the SpamAssassin perl API, it doesn't
use
> >any
> > > extra programs (such as the spamassassin script, or spamc or spamd) to
> >talk
> > > to SpamAssassin.
> > >
> > > >Best practise, use whitelist etc in mailscanner
> > > >or spamassasin?
> > >
> > > If you use RBLs in your MailScanner setup then you probably want to do
> >most
> > > of your whitelisting in MailScanner. However, SpamAssassins
> > > auto-whitelisting feature is pretty good, and you turn that on via a
> > > mailscanner.conf entry.
> > >
> > > >Any performance differense I should consider between
> > > >the 2 ways of using it?
> > >
> > > Get MailScanner to call it. No process startup cost at all.
> > > --
> > > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> > >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> > >
>
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>