On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For reasons discussed elsewhere, I've got to get serious about spam. But my > first 3 attempts to emerge spamassassin have failed. (on x86). > > For one thing, there's a detection process near the beginning that is > failing to detect Perl modules that are actually present, and from portage > not CPAN. > First it was Digest-SHA1. Re-emerging it fixed that, so maybe there was > bitrot somewhere. But now it's doing the same thing with Mail::DKIM, but > that's fortunately not a show-stopper like SHA1, but it's still worrisome. > > Now the show-stopper is some access violations that make no sense to me. It > says it could not 'mkdir /usr/share/spamassassin', but I could do it > from the command line (as root). Having done it, it still complained but > proceeded to report an access violation on an attempt to 'chmod 0644 > something'. > I could also do that one from the command-line. Grrrr. > > Has anyone seen this, and know of a workaround?
Use mail-filter/bogofilter? It uses bayesian techniques too, and I *think* it's compatible with SpamAssassin (I use Evolution, and it lets you choose among both of them). -- Fred Allen - "Television is a medium because anything well done is rare." -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
