SpamAssassin installation could not be found

Eric Rosander erosander at SECURENOTION.COM
Sun Sep 28 07:56:27 IST 2003


On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:23:25 -0500, Mike Kercher <mike at CAMAROSS.NET> wrote:

you left out a few steps....

> Installing the tarball couldn't be easier:
>
> tar xzvf spammassassin.tarball
> cd spammassassin_dir
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
error failed dep - find module <what? cpan looks at ftp.perl.org, no
longer exists?>
download module manually
tar zxvf module_
cd module_dir
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
cd spamassassin_dir
make
error failed another dep - find module <same as above, manual>,  install
make
ok.... good finally finished
make test - AAAACH - failed prod test, make link, install module
make test - ahhhhh, finally
> make install
> service MailScanner reload
>
At least that was my fun with it, perhaps you had a more complete perl
install.

Anyways, it works now.  Got 127 spam the 4 hours that spamassassin was
'not found'.  not bad for a Sat.

MailScanner & SA - don't do email without it.  Even at home (fetchmail to
a sendmail/MS/SA box).  Love it.

Eric Rosander



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