Spamassassin and ClamAV - Where From?

[Scott Silva]

Paul Hutchings spake the following on 3/27/2007 6:03 AM:
> Thanks, that makes sense.
> 
> I wasn't clear if it was that, or because some distro's maybe use
> odd/incompatible options as the defaults.
> 
> If the MailScanner SA/Clam tarball compiles and builds RPMs anyway (i.e.
> easy for me to handle) I guess there is little reason not to use it.
> 
> cheers,
> Paul
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> Paul Hutchings
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Steve
> Freegard
> Sent: 27 March 2007 13:55
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Spamassassin and ClamAV - Where From?
> 
> 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 It's because most RPMs supplied by the OS are already out-of-date by the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.
> 
I don't think the spamassassin-clamav tarball builds rpms, but I have been
known to be wrong (at least once ;-P )

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