FW: MailScanner Question

Mike Kercher mike at CAMAROSS.NET
Mon Sep 29 20:56:09 IST 2003


Would doing an rpm --rebuild of the SpamAssassin .src.rpm be as effective as
installing SA from the tarball?

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Jake McHenry
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:38 PM
To: valhalla-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: MailScanner Question


Basically that's what I just did, only in a different form.. correct? The
rpm was a source rpm, it unpacks it, compiles it, then packs it back into
rpm form for installation.

Let me know if I'm going astray here...

Jake



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CamaroSS.net>
To: <valhalla-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: MailScanner Question


> I subscribe to the MailScanner mailing list and the overwhelming 
> consensus is to install SA via tarball.  Your mileage may vary :)
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com
[mailto:valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Jake McHenry
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:19 PM
> To: valhalla-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: MailScanner Question
>
>
> Actually, I just finished doing that. I'm still receiving and sending 
> mail just fine. What I did was downloaded the source rpms, then 
> rebuilt them,
and
> installed those, 3 of them. I'm at version 2.60.
>
> Jake
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CamaroSS.net>
> To: <valhalla-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:13 PM
> Subject: RE: MailScanner Question
>
>
> > I would rpm -e the spamassassin RPM and then reinstall from source. 
> > There may be some confusion going on.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com]
> > On Behalf Of Jake McHenry
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:46 PM
> > To: valhalla-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: MailScanner Question
> >
> >
> > I installed spamassassin via rpm, from the redhat 9 installation cd, 
> > then
> I
> > downloaded and compiled mailscanner and clamav
> >
> > Jake
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CamaroSS.net>
> > To: <valhalla-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:12 PM
> > Subject: RE: MailScanner Question
> >
> >
> > > Did you install SpamAssassin via rpm or source?  It is preferred 
> > > to
> > install
> > > it from the .tar.gz rather than the .rpm
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com
> > [mailto:valhalla-list-admin at redhat.com]
> > > On Behalf Of Aaron Konstam
> > > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:37 AM
> > > To: valhalla-list at redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: MailScanner Question
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:43:20PM -0400, Jake McHenry wrote:
> > > > I'm running RH9 and it works great. Yes, I'm running MailScanner 
> > > > with spamassassin and clamav virus scanner. I know it's scanning 
> > > > outgoing emails because my employees have reported back to me 
> > > > that their customers are receiving emails with {Spam?} in their 
> > > > subject line. I have tested it myself and it does alter the 
> > > > subject line on outgoing emails, but it only seems to be outside 
> > > > offices, anyone connecting to the server that I have in the 
> > > > relay file. If I send from the local machine, it does not alter 
> > > > the messages.
> > > >
> > > > Does this help?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Jake
> > > Well I guess I am really confused because my experience is 
> > > different. On valhalla MailScanner ran staight from the box 
> > > evoking spamassassin. On RH
> > 9
> > > it would not work at all. One thing just for my curiosity. 
> > > MailScanner has many options. One seems obvious; Use spamassasin 
> > > to which I said yes. From then on I got no mail. Can this be 
> > > explained?
> > > --
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