ANNOUNCE: 4.00.0a9 released

[Peter Nitschke]

Check the spamassassin  src.rpm that Theo makes

http://www.kluge.net/ftp/pub/spamassassin/

I just run that, then go to the spec dir and rpm -bb spam*.spec and Voila!
Instant working RPM's

Peter


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On 6/10/2002 at 7:33 PM Julian Field wrote:

>At 18:27 06/10/2002, you wrote:
>>Would it be easier if you made a *.src.rpm that we could build?   As I
>>understand it, that would fix problems with different perl versions etc.
>
>That's not a bad idea at all. I'll have to discover exactly what rpm
>--rebuild does and what it doesn't. Then I could give you .src.rpm files
>for all the perl modules.
>
>
>>Peter
>>
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>>
>>On 6/10/2002 at 1:18 PM Julian Field wrote:
>>
>> >Should be fixed now. Do an "rpm -e mailscanner", download it again, and
>> >re-install it.
>> >
>> >I badly need to get the whole build process sorted out, otherwise I'm
>>going
>> >to keep making mistakes like this
>> >:-(
>> >
>> >At 12:21 06/10/2002, you wrote:
>> >>[root at verbose MailScanner]# service MailScanner start
>> >>Starting MailScanner daemons:
>> >>          incoming sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>> >>          outgoing sendmail:                                [  OK  ]
>> >>          MailScanner:       /usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: cd:
>> >>/opt/MailScanner/bin: No such file or directory
>> >>/usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: mailscanner: command not found
>> >>                                                            [  OK  ]
>> >>
>> >>If I just use check_MailScanner the error is a little more clear:
>> >>
>> >>[root at verbose MailScanner]# /usr/sbin/check_MailScanner
>> >>Starting virus scanner...
>> >>/usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: cd: /opt/MailScanner/bin: No such file or
>> >>directory
>> >>/usr/sbin/check_MailScanner: mailscanner: command not found
>> >>
>> >>So where does the RPM put the mailscanner, and how do I change the
>> >directory
>> >>that is being requested?
>> >>
>> >>Van
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Julian Field wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I have just posted up version 4.00.0a9 on the website.
>> >> > Please remember this is a test version and not a full production
>> >release.
>> >> >
>> >> > There are also the first versions of RPMs for RedHat 7.x and for
>>RedHat
>> >> > 8.x. Please be sure to use the right set, they won't install (due
to
>> >lack
>> >> > of dependencies) if you use the wrong ones. If you aren't using
>>RedHat,
>> >> > then I suggest you try the RedHat 7.x set first as that doesn't
>>require
>> >> > Perl 5.8.
>> >> >
>> >> > Give it all a go and let me know what you think.
>> >> >
>> >> > The Exim support is coming on well, and will hopefully be ready for
>> >testing
>> >> > in a few weeks time.
>> >> >
>> >> > Changes this time are:
>> >> >
>> >> > - Fixed various bugs.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Supports multiple mqueue.in directories, either by specifying a
>> >wildcard
>> >> >    in the MailScanner.conf file, or else by giving the name of a
>file
>> >> >    that contains the list of directories.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Improved handling of message/external-body messages, leaving any
>> >other
>> >> >    segments of the message intact.
>> >> >
>> >> > - Protection against <IFrame> and <Object> tags is now optional.
>> >> >
>> >> > - HTML content embedded in messages can be converted to plain text.
>> >This
>> >> >    is very useful if you have users who are children, or who are
>> >offended
>> >> >    by messages such as pornographic spam. You can convert it based
>on
>> >the
>> >> >    sender/recipients of the messages, or use it as an action to
>carry
>> >out
>> >> >    when messages are detected as spam.
>> >> >
>> >> > See what you think of the content filtering, it seems to do a good
>job
>> >on
>> >> > the messages I have tested it with.
>> >> > (Why can you never find a decent sample of porn spam when you need
>> >one? :-)
>> >> >
>> >> > It's actually faster than I thought it would be, as the core HTML
>> >analysis
>> >> > is done in C.
>> >> > --
>> >> > 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
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>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