On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 18:39 -0800, jdow wrote:
It needs Archive::Tar?
Apparently so... ["It" being part of spam assassin.]
How are you installing it?
It was the default installation that came with FC5, plus any updates that might have happened in the meantime.
On other boxes I had decided not to bother installing spam assassin, and until recently didn't use it. Evolution is painfully slow when it does *ANY* filtering, and five spams a day versus nearly 200 non-spams a day, meant that manual deletion isn't much of a chore. And there's something rather satisfying about saying, "Die you spam, die!," as you hit delete. I just decided to try it out, to see how it does its tricks. And to see if it's going to be a practical solution for a friend of mine who seems to have the opposite spam:ham ratio.
(I jettison the Fedora RPM and use cpan. That gives you a "canonical" install. Before removing the RPM save the file /etc/init.d/spamassassin. It is useful when it comes time to make spamd run.)
Hmm, I've not had the best of luck with Perl, in the past. I can remember all the messing around I had to do to get the WDG HTML validator installed, long ago (this needs that, ad infinitum, and *YOU*, poor sod, had to manage it all by yourself).
I have a dummy spamassassin RPM that installs nothing other than the knowledge that a dummy spamassassin is present to satisfy the YUM monster.
Hmm, I had thought of that approach with one or two other stupidly *REQUIRED* but unused RPMs in Fedora.