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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Spamassassin 3.0 + Amavisd-new 20040701
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:03:32
Message-Id: 20040928120201.GS12030@gnosis.datanode.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Spamassassin 3.0 + Amavisd-new 20040701 by Kerin Millar
1 Little after the fact (think it was Kerin's ticket in fact) but this has
2 been fixed
3
4 On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote:
5 > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 07:28 -0700, Jason Qualkenbush wrote:
6 > > I'm just about to upgrade Spamassassin to 3.0, but I read they changed a
7 > > lot. Something to do with the way it's called? I am running
8 > > Postfix+Amavisd-new+Spamassassin. Has anyone run into any problems with
9 > > amavisd-new and Spamassassin 3.0?
10 >
11 > Yes, but the workaround is trivial. Basically, the ebuild for
12 > spamassassin-3.0 places the inbuilt rules
13 > in /usr/share/spamassassin/core instead of /usr/share/spamassassin which
14 > breaks things (like amavisd-new). See:
15 >
16 > * http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64462
17 > * http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65102
18 >
19 > I upgraded to amavisd-new-2004096 (optional) as shown in #64462
20 > (remembering to fix the init script) and applied the fix
21 > to /usr/sbin/amavisd that I initially proposed there. You could just as
22 > easily change the ebuild for spamassassin-3.0 so that the relevant line
23 > reads as thus instead:
24 >
25 > myconf="SYSCONFDIR=/etc DATADIR=/usr/share/spamassassin"
26 >
27 > If you want the SPF (Sender Policy Framework) support to work, I believe
28 > that you'll need to install these modules:
29 >
30 > * dev-perl/libnet
31 > * dev-perl/Mail-SPF-Query
32 > * dev-perl/IP-Country
33 > * dev-perl/Net-Ident
34 > * dev-perl/Geography-Countries
35 > * dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long
36 >
37 > These are optional however. By the way, spamassassin-3.0 really kicks
38 > major backside :)
39 >
40 > --Kerin Francis Millar
41 >
42 >