>-----Original Message----- >From: Jonas Eckerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:57 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: SpamAssassin reviewed in InfoWorld > > >On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:51:18 +0100, Dimitrios wrote: > >> indeed that is the problem, SA lacks a HOWTO or step-by-step >> idiots guide and the user base has indeed changed and includes >> lots of Winblowz users. > >Maybe that's because its not possible to make *one* such >HOWTO. There's a multitude of different ways to invoke and use >SA, and one HOWTO can not describe them all. > >> but a nice HOWTO or step-by-step guide for Linux or FreeBSD would >> be helpful in general. > >The important factor here would not be wether one uses Linux >or FreeBSD. If one does a manual or a CPAN install it would be >done the same way on both platforms, if one uses ports or a >package based install, the procedure would be the same as for >other ports/packages for that OS/distribution. > >What would really be different would be wether one wants to >call SA from a simple sendmail milter, from an extremely >configurable milter, from exim, from procmail, from another >MDA, from a mail client, from a mail-fetcher script, or >something completly different. All these requires different >ssteps and can't be covered in one step-by-step guide. > >There are, however, step-by-step guides for some ways of >installing and utilizing SA. Somewhere I have, for example, >seen a step-by-step guide for installing SA and MIMEDefang and >get them to work. > >And you can find a lot more by entering "spamassassin how-to >howto" into Google and pressing Enter. > >/Jonas >
Just a comment here, from tech editing a book on SA. Yeah it is very difficult to cover all angles of installs. I think the proper term that I keep getting from the publisher was "next edition" :) I will also post those install examples to the wiki like I said I would. Maybe today, if people here at work leave me alone :) --Chris
