Blocking Spam

[jdow]

From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>

> On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 20:14 -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>> Spamassassin is the way to go, but make sure you use sa-update to
>> update the rules on a daily basis.
> 
> I hadn't really played much with spam assassin.  Never been overly
> impressed by it, nor many other alternatives, nor keen on mail programs
> which have "this is junk" buttons without any description of what that
> will actually do (play silly games with to/from addresses, analyse it
> some other way, etc.).  Though have turned on the junk filtering options
> on Evolution over the last few weeks, been marking junk as junk, though
> haven't seen it automatically detect ANY junk, at all.
> 
> So, not having heard of using sa-update before, I decided to see what it
> can do.  It does this:
> 
> Can't locate Archive/Tar.pm in @INC (@INC 

It needs Archive::Tar?

How are you installing it? (I jettison the Fedora RPM and use cpan. That
gives you a "canonical" install. Before removing the RPM save the file
/etc/init.d/spamassassin. It is useful when it comes time to make spamd
run.)

I have a dummy spamassassin RPM that installs nothing other than the
knowledge that a dummy spamassassin is present to satisfy the YUM monster.

{^_^}