Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?
Finally tried today.
NONE of the usual methods of installing SpamAssassin with Sendmail work,
because they're either insanely poorly documented, or assume local delivery.
This server forwards 100% of its mail to other sites and domains for final
delivery.
So I decided to try mimedefang as suggested by Lucas Albers
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:17:06PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
> The debian installation is by far the easiest linux installation.
> apt-get install mimedefang.
No, it isn't. As mentioned in my original message, I use stable. Of
course, mimedefang isn't in the horribly obsolete stable, and there's no
backport. Instructions at mimedefang.org would require me to recompile
sendmail!
I did try one of the poorly-documented alternatives to enable site-wide
SpamAssassin, but changing one line in sendmail.mc and using m4 caused this
enlightening error message:
sendmail.mc:54: m4: Cannot open /usr/share/sendmail/cf/mailer/.m4: No such
file or directory
*** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()
Oddly, the relevant portion of sendmail.mc (beginning with line 53) is
##m4 informs me that this line must be before MAILER
FEATURE('local_procmail')dnl
##Force delivery to be via procmail
dnl #
dnl # Dialup/LAN connection overrides
dnl #
include(`/etc/mail/dialup.m4')dnl
include(`/etc/mail/provider.m4')dnl
dnl #
MAILER_DEFINITIONS
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
Surely FEATURE *is* before MAILER? And what file name is it really looking
for that ends in ".m4"?
Man, this is frustrating. I guess I'll look for alternatives to
SpamAssassin, something that isn't so incredibly and pointlessly hard to
use.
--
Carl Fink carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
http://www.jabootu.com
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