Spamassassin upgrade

[Julian Field]

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Christian Campbell wrote:

>>>I'm currently using MS
>>>4.35.11/Razor2/SURBL/RDJ/F-Prot/BitDefender/ClamAV and SA
>>>
>>>
>2.63.
>
>
>>>Is upgrading to SA 3.0 as easy as:
>>>
>>>perl -MCPAN -eshell
>>>install Mail::SpamAssassin
>>>
>>>???
>>>
>>>If not, could anyone point me to an upgrade walk-thru?
>>>
>>>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
>>There is a package on the MS downloads page that includes
>>SpamAssassin and
>>all its dependencies, and Clam for good measure as well. I
>>would advise you
>>use the tar version rather than the rpm version (it's more
>>robust). You
>>might want to delete the obvious Clam-related bits from the
>>install script.
>>But otherwise it's about the easiest way as you get all the
>>dependencies too
>>so that things like SPF checking actually work.
>>
>>
>
>Can do this over the top my existing SA installation, or do I
>need to remove any old SA 2.x files?
>
>
If any were installed by RPM then remove those ('rpm -qa | grep
spamassassin' will show you). Otherwise you should be able just install
over the top.
But you probably want to remove any additional rulesets you have
installed, as most of the ones people used to use in 2.x (e.g. BigEvil)
are now incorporated in a better way than they were before (this is what
the SURBL talk is all about).

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