On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 18:39 -0800, jdow wrote: > It needs Archive::Tar? Apparently so... ["It" being part of spam assassin.] > How are you installing it? It was the default installation that came with FC5, plus any updates that might have happened in the meantime. On other boxes I had decided not to bother installing spam assassin, and until recently didn't use it. Evolution is painfully slow when it does *ANY* filtering, and five spams a day versus nearly 200 non-spams a day, meant that manual deletion isn't much of a chore. And there's something rather satisfying about saying, "Die you spam, die!," as you hit delete. I just decided to try it out, to see how it does its tricks. And to see if it's going to be a practical solution for a friend of mine who seems to have the opposite spam:ham ratio. > (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.) Hmm, I've not had the best of luck with Perl, in the past. I can remember all the messing around I had to do to get the WDG HTML validator installed, long ago (this needs that, ad infinitum, and *YOU*, poor sod, had to manage it all by yourself). > I have a dummy spamassassin RPM that installs nothing other than the > knowledge that a dummy spamassassin is present to satisfy the YUM > monster. Hmm, I had thought of that approach with one or two other stupidly *REQUIRED* but unused RPMs in Fedora. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
