MailScanner Installation Guide ? SpamAssassin

SpamAssassin (currently on V2.60) can be a bit of a pig to install, so
here is a guide of what I last did (on a Cobalt RaQ as it happened) to
install it.

Download Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz from www.spamassassin.org into
somewhere sensible such as /root or /tmp.
    If the site is down, search Google for the file and you'll find a copy. 
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
    Whenever it asks for manual configuration, say no. 
cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy ask
    Stops it running away and installing loads of extras. 
cpan> install Time::HiRes
cpan> install Net::DNS
cpan> quit
# tar xzf Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz
# cd Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60
# perl Makefile.PL
# make
    You may now get some errors about pod2text. If you do, then do this
    command: 
    # ln -s /usr/bin/pod2man /usr/bin/pod2text 
    # make 
# make test
    This will fail horribly due to the lack of the file Pod/Usage.pm so
    now do this to install it: 
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy ask
cpan> install Pod::Usage
cpan> quit
# make test
    This time, the tests should succeed. They can take a while. 
# make install

You now have installed SpamAssassin. The next step is to configure it
and MailScanner.

   1. In /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf, I would advise you set "Log
      Spam = yes" to start with.
   2. You will of course need "Use SpamAssassin = yes".
   3. If you don't have a very fast link, increase "SpamAssassin
      Timeout" to nearer 20. 

Then just kill and restart MailScanner and you're up and running.
# check_MailScanner
(This will print out the pids of the MailScanner processes)
Kill those pids with the "kill" command
#

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Julian Field <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/info/people/jkf>