Getting SpamAssassin installation could not be found error

[Marco Obaid]

Uninstall the SpamAssassin RPMS and install SA from CPAN:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
o con prerequisites_policy ask
install Mail::SpamAssassin

This is guaranteed to work !!!


Quoting Brian Lewis <test at NEXTMILL.NET>:

> Fresh Install
> Fedora Core 1 (Perl 5.8.1 selected at installation)
> MailScanner: mailscanner-4.26.8-1.rpm.tar
> SpamAssassin: spamassassin-2.63-1.i386.rpm & perl-mail-spamassassin-2.63-
> 1.i386.rpm
> Antivirus: clamav-0.65-4.i386.rpm
> Installed via CPAN - Net::DNS, Time::HiRes, Pod::Usage
>
> /var/log/maillog shows every 10 seconds:
> Feb  4 09:11:10 mailcheck MailScanner[2840]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
> Scanner version 4.26.8 starting...
> Feb  4 09:11:10 mailcheck MailScanner[2840]: SpamAssassin installation
> could not be found
>
> Listed all RPMs, there was only one Perl (5.8.1) and SpamAssassin (2.63),
> uninstalled SpamAssassin and its perl-mail rpms, reinstalled, rebooted
> server, still does not help.
>
> Copied /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/ to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/
> as the FAQ states and it didn't help.
>
> Don't have a /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail FOLDER as mentioned in
> the FAQ under SpamAssassin:installation could not be found
>
> Any advise on what next to troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated
>