Hello, can anyone offer a source for more elementary install instructions for a "unix shell account". I believe I need something that tells me step by step how to customize the code for any system services that may be needed and missing and instructions on how to install those if needed.
I have 3 pop3 accounts serviced by a small rented "shell account" (Redhat & Apache). I have learned enough Unix skills to know that Procmail is being used to deliver email to each of my POP3 accounts via a .procmailrc file. I have been able to copy and paste into this file to do some filtering but I want to give spam-assassin a try. We get about 5 legitimate emails a day and about 200 spams. I found this code block at http://www.spamassassin.org/full/2.6x/dist/INSTALL and it appears to maybe "a start": To install as non-root, do something like this: [unzip/untar the archive] cd Mail-SpamAssassin-* perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sausr SYSCONFDIR=~/saetc [option: add -DSPAMC_SSL to $CFLAGS to build an SSL-enabled spamc] make make install I have no root authority or system CGI write capability since this is a shell account (I do have an empty CGI directory to store files and perl seems to work on the system). Is the above block of code all I have to do to install? Does Makefile.PL do everything for me, or what else is required to install and start testing? Also, do I ftp the entire contents of the ZIP file to my Unix shell server or is that only required during the install process? Also, is /sauser and /saetc the literal names I am supposed to use as above, or is this indicating another name to use, this one being generic???? Any help would be appreciated.
