Question about spamassasin

[Julian Field]

At 17:07 08/08/2002, you wrote:
>Forgive my terminology...perl gets upgraded :)

If you think your Perl may get upgraded (against your wishes) by the
SpamAssassin install, then do that first.

Using CPAN I stop it by thumping Ctrl-C *once* when it starts trying to do
the autoconfiguration stuff for new version of Perl.


>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
> >

--
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