On Mon, Mar 13, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
> I spent a fair amount of time this weekend dealing with
> spamassassin and adding some modules that it would like to have.
>
> We've run into a situation occassionaly where spamd doesn't seem
> to use %{l_prefix}/etc/spamassassin for its local rules. Adding
> ``--siteconfigpath=%{l_prefix}/etc/spamassassin'' to the startup
> cures the problem.
>
> Adding this to the rc.spamassassin file would eliminate this type
> of problem, and I don't see that it would hurt anything.
>
> As for the perl modules, Spamassassin looks for Mail::SPF::Query
> and IP::Country during the installation. While I think that SPF
> is a Bad Idea(tm), one of our larger ISP customers wanted this
> added, and the IP::Country module might be useful as well.
>
> I added the Mail::SPF::Query module here to the perl-mail
> package, and IP::Country to perl-net since these seem to be the
> logical packages. I did find it necessary to add these to the
> Release 2.2 and Release 2.3 packages since we were getting errors
> when I tried using the CURRENT version, suitably modified to
> adjust the perl version, in the earlier release trees.
>
> My main question then is whether these changes should be made in
> the CURRENT versions of spamassassin, perl-mail, and perl-net?
I've checked the source of spamd(8) and there is no default
at all for the local rules dir. So it makes sense to add the
--siteconfigpath to the rc.spamassassin. I've done this now for us. See
http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=27717 for details.
The IP::Country I've also added to perl-net as it looks rather useful.
See http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=27718 for details.
But Mail::SPF::Query we cannot add to perl-mail as it requires stuff
from perl-www and this whould mean a cyclic dependency. And SPF is nasty
stuff, yes. So I recommend to leave this out and if really wished (in
spamassassin it is _optional_ only) one easily can install it via the
CPAN shell into the site_perl/ area of our Perl installation.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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