On Tuesday 19 January 2016 at 18:49:41, Sarang Shrivastava wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I was trying to install SA on my system for which i needed postfix to be
> preinstalled on my system.
>
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-s
> pamassassin-on-ubuntu-12-04
>
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-p
> ostfix-on-ubuntu-12-04
>
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-
> with-digitalocean So here is the thing , in order to install postfix and
> get it working i need to have a domain name and mail server, both of which
> i don't have.
If you have a network, then surely you have a domain name (even just a local
one which you use internally, but isn't externally registered)?
What hostnames do your computers have?
Also, what do you mean by "you don't have a mail server"? If you're setting
up postfix, then that *is* your mail server...
> Is there a work around so as to i can link my gmail to my laptop and
> download mails from it and test them with the help of SA. or I could just
> run SA on my system and feed mails to it from a dataset that i have
> downloaded locally.
You can certainly run SpamAssassin on a client machine instead of being linked
to an MTA (eg: postfix), but what are you actually trying to achieve?
Are you just investigating SA to see how well it can filter your email, and the
ultimate objective (if you're happy with the results) would be to continue
running it on that client machine, or are you trying to learn about SA in a
small environment, with a view to setting it up on an mail server running
postfix later?
Regards,
Antony.
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