Re: [vps-mail] installing spamassassin on VPS2

[Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Nancy McGough wrote:
> Hello VPS Mailers,
> 
> I just got a VPS2 account and I'm setting it up with procmail and 
> spamassassin and basically everything that I write about on my 
> Procmail Quick Start, which is here:
> 
>  <http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/>
> 
> I was following the instructions here:
> 
> <http://www.viaverio.com/support/virtual/email/spam/spamassassin/index.cfm>
> 
> And to my dismay got this:
> 
>  You have installed Spam Assassin 2.43.

Hehe... yes. The 'vinstall' is a bit out of date. You can install SA
from CPAN, which will overwrite the old version completely:

    perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::SpamAssassin'

You may have to answer some questions if you've never used CPAN
before; just accept the defaults until you get to the part where you
choose your mirrors. Choose the closest viaverio mirror--mirrors 3 and
4 on the list usually--depending on your datacenter. You can find your
datacenter by typing 'sinfo' at the shell prompt; servers in the
Virginia datacenter begin with 'va', servers in the San Jose
datacenter begin with 'sj'.

The 'vinstall' is still useful to some people who are unfamiliar with
procmail/SA generally since it automatically generates procmail
recipes, etc. for filtering mail through SA.

Scott
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