errors that I can't figure out - SOLVED

[Julian Field]

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Craig White wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:30 +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
>
>>Craig
>>
>>the init.pre contains lists of plugins etc hat should loaded.
>>
>>in my case it's in /etc/mail/spamassassin and contains..
>>
>># This is the right place to customize your installation of #SpamAssassin.
>>#
>># See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be
>># tweaked.
>>#
>># This file will be loaded before *all other* configuration files,
>>#including
>># the system configuration.  As such, it's a good place to set things # that
>># will affect how those files are parsed, like which plugins are loaded
>># etc.
>>#
>>###########################################################################
>>
>># RelayCountry - add metadata for Bayes learning, marking the countries
>># a message was relayed through
>>#
>># loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry
>>
>># URIDNSBL - look up URLs found in the message against several DNS
>># blocklists.
>>#
>>loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL
>>
>># Hashcash - perform hashcash verification.
>>#
>>loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash
>>
>># SPF - perform SPF verification.
>>#
>>loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF
>>
>>
>>
>>As for the bayes DB issue, make sure your spam.assassin.prefs.conf has
>>it set to the correct directory with..
>>
>>bayes_path                 /usr/local/var/spamassassin/bayes
>>
>>or wherever it should be..if this is a fresh install you'll need to
>>populate the DB with sa-learn and use 200 of spam and 200 of ham to
>>train it. Either that or download examples from www.fsl.com/support
>>
>>
>-----
>YEP - but for the archives in case anyone follows my ignorant tracks...
>
>RHEL 3 - I upgraded to Dag's version of spamassassin...
>
>apt-get install spamassassin-tools #installs things like
>  # perl-Statistics-Distributions
>  # perl-Parse-Syslog
>
>which fixed the issues with the URINDSBL and spamassassin plugins
>
>then I created /etc/MailScanner/bayes
>
>downloaded fsl.com starter file for bayes...
>
>wget http://www.fsl.com/support/bayes-Linux-SA-3.0-starter-db.tar.gz
>
>untarred it in /etc/MailScanner/bayes
>
>restarted MailScanner and I was good to go
>
>Thanks for the fish and what appears to be a great tool that I don't
>really fully comprehend.
>
>Do I really want to use SPF ? I wasn't much interested in it before.
>
>
In my view, SPF doesn't do any harm. People like us who can't implement
it don't cause any harm, but it may help occasionally for sites that can
and do implement it.

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