Can't get spam checking working?

[Julian Field]

At 03:32 05/01/2002, you wrote:
>On my system I have been totally unable to get any kind of internal spam
>screening running with either the 2.6 or the 3.0 versions.  Watching top I
>can see that sendmail and mailscanner run but spamassassin is never
>executed by mailscanner.

You won't see it execute anything with "top". It just calls the perl code,
it doesn't crank up any binaries to do it (much too slow and heavyweight).

>I am using an old but functional 486 system to play with this.  Could it
>be that the mailscanner spam code isn't compatible with a 486 cpu?

Nope. It's written in perl.
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