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.
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