SpamAssassin installation could not be found

[Martin Hepworth]

Max

uninstall the RPMs - mailScanner doesn't like it. Install from source or
CPAN which will work.

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Martin Hepworth
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Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
>
>>Max Pyziur wrote:
>>
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>Apologies since I've seen this problem posted before and have read through
>>>the  faq-o-matic.
>>>
>>>I've tried all of the suggestions which were made but as yet nothing
>>>seems to work.
>>>
>>>Some details: I've recently upgraded to mailscanner 4.30; I've upgraded also
>>>to SpamAssassin 2.63.  Both have been installed using rpm.
>>>
>>>Looking at the details of
>>>/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SA.pm I see that around line 119 the
>>>"SpamAssassin installation could not be found" message is shown and am
>>>assuming that settings prior to this line cause the error.
>>>
>>>My spamassassin perl modules are installed in
>>>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail (yes I know that this version of Perl is
>>>now on the trailing edge; in time it will be updated).
>>>
>>>Doing perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin does bring up documentation; does that
>>>validate correct path settings?  What other things should I be checking in
>>>order to make Spamassissin work w/ MailScanner?
>>>
>>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Much Thanks.
>>
>>Uninstall Spamassassin's rpm, then install from source or CPAN.  SA's
>>rpm don't get along well with MailScanner.
>
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I've uninstalled SpamAssassin from rpms (ones which I built from SRPMs)
> and have installed SpamAssassin 2.63 from source.  I'm able to run
> spamassassin -D --lint -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> with no problems.
>
> However, when I set "Use SpamAssassin = yes" I get the usual
> "SpamAssassin installation could not be found" in the /var/log/maillog
> file and MailScanner ceases to deliver mail.
>
> This then seems to be a configuration setting on MailScanner's side; I see
> in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/SA.pm that the error message is
> produced at line 119 when it encounters the subsequent statement at line
> 120  -- unless eval "require Mail::SpamAssassin";
>
> Having tried the above-mentioned recommendations and ones which I've found
> in MailScanner's archives I'll still continue looking through
> the archives, but if someone has more information on this I would
> appreciate it very much.
>
> Much thanks.
>
>
>>a quick search on google would have told you, or the MAQ page
>>http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#beforeanything
>>
>>
>>
>>>Max Pyziur
>>>pyz at brama.com
>
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