Missing perl modules needed by spamassassin-3.1.0

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jul 15 11:02:36 UTC 2005


Warren Togami wrote:
> Anybody have made their own personal perl module package for any of these?
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
> 
> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional Mail::SPF::Query module is not installed.
> 
>   Used to check DNS Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records to fight email
>   address forgery and make it easier to identify spams.

Yes: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/perl-modules/SRPMS/

Would need some cleaning up for inclusion in Core/Extras. Not a big job. 
Would also need some other dependency modules to be done.

perl(Net::CIDR::Lite)
perl(Net::DNS) >= 0.46 for distros with older versions
perl(Sys::Hostname::Long)

> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional IP::Country module is not installed.
> 
>   Used by the RelayCountry plugin (not enabled by default) to determine
>   the domain country codes of each relay in the path of an email.
> 
> 
> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional Razor2 (version 2.61) module is not installed.
> 
>   Used to check message signatures against Vipul's Razor collaborative
>   filtering network. Razor has a large number of dependencies on CPAN
>   modules. Feel free to skip installing it, if this makes you nervous;
>   SpamAssassin will still work well without it.
> 
>   More info on installing and using Razor can be found
>   at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingRazor .

perl-Razor-Agent is in Extras.

> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional Net::Ident module is not installed.
> 
>   If you plan to use the --auth-ident option to spamd, you will need
>   to install this module.
> 
> 
> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional IO::Socket::SSL module is not installed.
> 
>   If you wish to use SSL encryption to communicate between spamc and
>   spamd (the --ssl option to spamd), you need to install this
>   module. (You will need the OpenSSL libraries and use the
>   ENABLE_SSL="yes" argument to Makefile.PL to build and run an SSL
>   compatibile spamc.)

perl-IO-Socket-SSL is in Extras.

> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional DBI module is not installed.
> 
>   If you intend to use SpamAssassin with an SQL database backend for
>   user configuration data, Bayes storage, or other storage, you will need
>   to have these installed; both the basic DBI module and the driver for
>   your database.

perl-DBI is in FC4.

> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional Archive::Tar module is not installed.
> 
>   The "sa-update" script requires this module to access tar update
>   archive files.

perl-Archive-Tar is in FC4.

> ***************************************************************************
> NOTE: the optional IO::Zlib module is not installed.
> 
>   The "sa-update" script requires this module to access compressed
>   update archive files.

perl-IO-Zlib is in FC4.

Paul.




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