Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

From: Carl Fink (carl_at_fink.to)
Date: 12/25/03

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    Finally tried today.

    NONE of the usual methods of installing SpamAssassin with Sendmail work,
    because they're either insanely poorly documented, or assume local delivery.
    This server forwards 100% of its mail to other sites and domains for final
    delivery.

    So I decided to try mimedefang as suggested by Lucas Albers

    On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:17:06PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:

    > The debian installation is by far the easiest linux installation.
    > apt-get install mimedefang.

    No, it isn't. As mentioned in my original message, I use stable. Of
    course, mimedefang isn't in the horribly obsolete stable, and there's no
    backport. Instructions at mimedefang.org would require me to recompile
    sendmail!

    I did try one of the poorly-documented alternatives to enable site-wide
    SpamAssassin, but changing one line in sendmail.mc and using m4 caused this
    enlightening error message:

      sendmail.mc:54: m4: Cannot open /usr/share/sendmail/cf/mailer/.m4: No such
      file or directory
      *** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()

    Oddly, the relevant portion of sendmail.mc (beginning with line 53) is

      ##m4 informs me that this line must be before MAILER
      FEATURE('local_procmail')dnl
      ##Force delivery to be via procmail
      dnl #
      dnl # Dialup/LAN connection overrides
      dnl #
      include(`/etc/mail/dialup.m4')dnl
      include(`/etc/mail/provider.m4')dnl
      dnl #
     
      MAILER_DEFINITIONS
      MAILER(local)dnl
      MAILER(smtp)dnl

    Surely FEATURE *is* before MAILER? And what file name is it really looking
    for that ends in ".m4"?

    Man, this is frustrating. I guess I'll look for alternatives to
    SpamAssassin, something that isn't so incredibly and pointlessly hard to
    use.
    --
    Carl Fink carl@fink.to
    Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
    http://www.jabootu.com 

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