Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com>]

MH wrote:

> >>>>> "Nori" == Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:
> [...]
>
>     Nori> from http://spamassassin.taint.org/dist/README: " On Debian,
>     Nori> you can apt-get it from unstable, thanks to Duncan Findlay."
>
>     Nori> debian confirms this at
>     Nori> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/spamassassin.html
>
>     Nori> so why can't i do:
>
>     Nori> orange:~# apt-get install spamassassin/unstable Reading
>     Nori> Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E:
>     Nori> Couldn't find package spamassassin/unstable
>
>     Nori> ?  am i doing it wrong?  (currently running potato)
>
> Yep, you usually control the release through the
> /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> There is a apt-howto, if you are interested ...
>
> Nevertheless, the easiest way would be to get spamassassin through
> CPAN ( perl -MCPAN -e shell and so on) -- "Spamassassin as a debian
> package is relatively recent, so there are a lot of dependencies not
> met with potato (perl 5.6 ...).
>
> BTW, as Mail:Audit is a prerequisite, have a look at it as a
> replacement for procmail - if you want so...
>
> HTH,
>
> MH
>
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I feel overwhelmed by the volume of the response.
Thankyou. Thankyou, all of you.
Now I have to try to understand all the resources to which I have been pointed.