Spamassassin and ClamAV - Where From?

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Paul,

Paul Hutchings wrote:
> I now appear to have a working Mailscanner system that does what I want
> (other than a little rulset tweaking).
> 
> I've seen/heard talk of installing Spamassassin and ClamAV from the
> installer off the MailScanner site.
> 
> My question is why?
> 
> There are rpm's for both for OpenSuse (using 10.2) and being a newbie it
> makes life easier for me, so is there a specific reason or is it a bit
> of a "in the past X happened" issue?

It's because most RPMs supplied by the OS are already out-of-date by the 
time the OS actually ships.

The installer from the MailScanner web site simply grabs all the 
necessary packages and build the RPMs from source and installs and 
configures them for you.

Kind regards,
Steve.

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Steve Freegard
Development Director
Fort Systems Ltd.
UK Office