SpamAssassin build

[Quentin Campbell]

I am hesitant to ask questions about building SpamAssassin on the
MailScanner list but since the latter relies on the SpamAssassin web
site for installation instructions, and these do not work, here goes!

I am trying out SpamAssassin in advance of installing MailScanner 3.00.

I obtained the *.tar.gz lump from http://spamassassin.org and tried to
build it as per the README file. A couple of problems:

  1. Sun's Professional C compiler fails because it does not like a
     comment line in the file spamd/spam.c (line 283). It seems that
     gcc is more forgiving.

  2. Of more significance is that Mail::Audit is not "optional" as
     the README file suggests. Even if you remove reference to it as
     a pre-requisite in "Makefile.PL", it is otherwise referenced
     in various pre-built SpamAssassin libraries. So you can build
     SpamAssassin by tweaking the "Makefile.PL" file but you cannot
     run it because of the missing Mail::Audit stuff on your system.

This leads me to my questions:

  1. is NET-DNS-0.12 sufficient or do you need the later (buggy?)
version.
  2. does MailScanner need the functionality of Mail::Audit in SA? If
so,
     why?      
  3. it would appear that some changes are needed to "spamassassin.cf"
     if only so you do not attempt to access inappropriate "blackhole"
     sites. Is there a list anywhere of suggested changes/additions?
  4. are there any other useful hints about building/using SpamAssassin
     in the context of using it with MailScanner?  

It might be better if any replies are sent off-list and I will summarise
to the list if appropriate.

Thanks 

Quentin
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