Re: spamassassin

From: Lew Pitcher (lpitcher_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/16/03 

Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:57:34 -0500

Kevin Nathan wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2003 16:58:11 -0800
> lotdfan@comcast.net (Joe) wrote:
>
>
>>Well, I gave it a try but something is not working right. I went to
>>the UK site mentioned in one of the above posts and have created the
>>two filters in Kmail. I next tried entering the command "sa-learn
>>--spam --dir /home/UserName/Mail/.spam.directory/MissedSpam/ (I'm
>>using maildir) but all I got was an error message. Do I need to
>>login as su, and from what directory would I run this
>>command...assuming I'm using the right command. I installed
>>spamassasin from the Suse cd's. Have I missed a step or just not
>>using the right command. Can someone please list the steps in a
>>little more detail from that point on.
>>
>
>
> IIRC, the SUSE version doesn't have all of the scripts (spamassassin
> is mostly Perl scripts), you need to use CPAN to get them all.

 From the SpamAssassin INSTALL file...

   The easiest way to do this is using CPAN.pm, like so:

           perl -MCPAN -e shell [as root]
           o conf prerequisites_policy ask
           install Mail::SpamAssassin
           quit

Worked for me. 

-- 
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.

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