Safe to upgrade SpamAssassin?

[Julian Field]

At 20:54 02/06/2003, you wrote:
>Julian Field <mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
> > At 20:32 02/06/2003, you wrote:
> > > Chris W. Parker <> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'll give it a shot and let everyone know how it goes.
> > >
> > > The CPAN thing didn't work. It continuously timed out when trying to
> > > connect to ftp.cpan.org. So I tried rebuilding the source rpm, that
> > > didn't work either*. Then I just downloaded the i386.rpm and
> > > installed that. As far as I know it's installed and working. How
> > > can I verify what version of SA is being used?
> >
> > The problem with the i386.rpm is that on many versions of many OS's
> > it gets the paths wrong and won't actually work. If you are lucky,
> > then perl use Mail::SpamAssassin;
> > print $Mail::SpamAssassin::VERSION . "\n";
> > (then press Ctrl-D and it will print the version number).
>
>Says 2.55. Does that indicate all is well?

Sounds promising :)
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