Blocking Spam

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 26 December 2006 16:59, jdow wrote:
>From: "James Wilkinson" <fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk>
>
>> jdow wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> That's "canonical" as in "direct from
>> http://spamassassin.apache.org/"?
>
>Effectively.
>
>> The download page says
>>  RPM: SpamAssassin RPMs can be built directly from the tar file.
>>
>>    * Simply run:
>>
>>      rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7.tar.gz
>>
>>      If necessary use the following option if you grab the bzip2 tar
>>      file instead of the gzip version:
>>
>>      --define "srcext .bz2"
>>
>> You end up with two RPMs you need to install, instead of Fedora's one,
>> but you end up with canonical SpamAssassin managed by RPM.
>
>The missing files that are in that second RPM are the main reason I went
>to CPAN installs. It also means I can add the perl features that can
> make SpamAssassin somewhat stronger.
>
>RPM management seems to leave you too much at the mercy of the Fedora
>Core folks who seem to be allergic to including features from time to
> time.
>
"Allergic" Joanne?  In some cases its more like prophylactic shock, 
resulting in a near death experience.  But I understand the need to be a 
lady. :-)

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