SpamAssassin 3.0.2

[werwin01]

SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (DA runs 3.0.1) was released on Dec 16, 2004.

http://spamassassin.apache.org/

[hostpc.com]

Has anyone successfully upgraded to this version yet?

[matrixx]

Yep - I've got it running on 2 DA boxes one a straight install one an upgrade - both work fine

Rob

[Chrysalis]

also using 3.02 however I upgraded myself as I thought DA bundles with 2.x

[MagnuM]

Can you tell me some details about how to upgrade?

[dannygoh]

i also need a quick update instructions

[jjma]

I'd like to know too.

regards

John

[cyberdots]

Can u tell us how you upgrade Spam Assasin ?
I have DA 1.23.3 and use SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on a FREEBSD box.

[interfasys]

spamassasin is in FreeBSD ports, so it shouldn't be too hard.

[Chrysalis]

Read the howto section, and yes for FreeBSD users you have an easy way out install the port.

[NVarra]

You could always just edit: /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/spam.sh

1. Change the version number to 3.0.2
2. Change the download URL to the official SA download site.WEBPATH=http://apache.ntcity.co.uk/spamassassin/source3. Then run it to upgrade.
# /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/spam.sh


Manual install/upgrade is just as easy though. :)

# wget http://apache.ntcity.co.uk/spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2.tar.gz
# tar -xzf Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2.tar.gz
# rm -f Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2.tar.gz
# cd Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2
# perl Makefile.pl
# make
# make install
# /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5


Later.....

[werwin01]

Manual install and ports install on FreeBSD 5.3 did not work.
Editing the spam.sh script worked.

[Chrysalis]

Originally posted by werwin01
Manual install and ports install on FreeBSD 5.3 did not work.
Editing the spam.sh script worked.

yeah the spam.sh method will work better use that, I forgot the exact method I used to be honest.

[rldev]

Hmm,
I tried the spam.sh script.
It looked to go fine.
However, emails still read 3.01
I tried restarting but am not able to:

Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use

I just ran a kill -TERM on the parent spamd process and restarted. All is working

[MagnuM]

OK, it seems the upgrade work fine on Red Hat Enterprise AS3.

This is what I got on emails:

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on ...
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,
HTML_90_100,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_TAG_EXIST_MARQUEE,HTML_TAG_EXIST_TBODY
autolearn=no version=3.0.2


Why is the level * ?

[andyl]

Why is the level * ?

That's SA's representation of the numeric spam score in X-Spam-Status; it makes it easier to create filters based on a score; if you look for:

X-Spam-Level: ****

you'll catch all mail with a score of four or higher. It's easier for every mail client I've seen than parsing the numeric score.

(Or did you mean why did SA come up with a score of 1.6?)

Andy

[MagnuM]

Let me explain what I understand:

The greater the X-Spam-Level is (more **...) the greater the posibility to chch spam is (even with the risc of detecting as a SPAM the email which are good)

So how can I increase that spam level?

Anyway, my Threshold is 5.0 there in DirectAdmin SA setup page.

[XerionHosting]

Well in Redhat 9.0 there are some problems:

I changed the version and stuff and this happens:

The error was:
version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 56.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 56.
Compilation failed in require at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 74.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 74.
Compilation failed in require at version.h.pl line 27.
make: *** [spamc/Makefile] Error 2

Then i tryd it munualy:

[root@xerionhosting Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2]# perl Makefile.PL
What email address or URL should be used in the suspected-spam report
text for users who want more information on your filter installation?
(In particular, ISPs should change this to a local Postmaster contact)
default text: [the administrator of that system] spawn@xerionhosting.nl

Check network rules during 'make test' (test scripts may fail due to
network problems)? (y/n) [n] y

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite Digest::SHA1 0 not found.

Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure,
your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

Writing Makefile for Mail::SpamAssassin
Makefile written by ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.03
[root@xerionhosting Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2]# make
Makefile:95: *** missing separator. Stop.

What could it be?

[winger]

Hi,
I was looking this one and i am not sure, i have a RH9 box with DA and i am still using version 2.64, does anybody knows if i can upgrad to version 3.0.2? Where i can found the best "how to" to do that?

Thanks!!

:D

[Erik H.]

Originally posted by XerionHosting
Well in Redhat 9.0 there are some problems:

I changed the version and stuff and this happens:

The error was:
version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 56.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 56.
Compilation failed in require at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 74.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 74.
Compilation failed in require at version.h.pl line 27.
make: *** [spamc/Makefile] Error 2

Then i tryd it munualy:

[root@xerionhosting Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2]# perl Makefile.PL
What email address or URL should be used in the suspected-spam report
text for users who want more information on your filter installation?
(In particular, ISPs should change this to a local Postmaster contact)
default text: [the administrator of that system] spawn@xerionhosting.nl

Check network rules during 'make test' (test scripts may fail due to
network problems)? (y/n) [n] y

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite Digest::SHA1 0 not found.

Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure,
your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make'

Writing Makefile for Mail::SpamAssassin
Makefile written by ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.03
[root@xerionhosting Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2]# make
Makefile:95: *** missing separator. Stop.

What could it be?

Hi,

Same problem here of FC2. A solution anyone ?

Regards,
Erik

[dec]

Originally posted by Erik H.
Hi,

Same problem here of FC2. A solution anyone ?

Regards,
Erik

Try installing the module that is missing.. this should do it:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA1'

Dec

[Erik H.]

Originally posted by dec
Try installing the module that is missing.. this should do it:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA1'

Dec

Okay, that helped a lot. (I got much further)

Now I get :

Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use (IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use)

when using

/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5

[dec]

Originally posted by Erik H.
Okay, that helped a lot. (I got much further)

Now I get :

Could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use (IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use)

when using

/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5

Try this:

killall -TERM spamd

then:

/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5

Dec

[Erik H.]

THank you soo much !

It worked.

[winger]

Sorry, but what is FC2? Is the version 3.0.2 working in RH9?

[winger]

Erik H.,
Is the spam assasim 3.0.2 working in your system with RH9 or not?

:)

[jmstacey]

Originally posted by winger
Sorry, but what is FC2?

Fedora Core 2

[torp]

Originally posted by dec
Try installing the module that is missing.. this should do it:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA1'

Dec

no, it doesn't :(
[root@server scripts]# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA1' Can't locate CPAN.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .). BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

Updating from 2.63 on RHat 9

[jmstacey]

Try downloading, compiling, and installing it manually torp.
Seems to be a problem with you cpan installation/module.

[torp]

I've had this CPAN/SpamAssassin problem for a long time. Compiling gave same error.

Now I just installed apt4rpm and voila - 'apt-get install spamassassin' fixed all my worries ;)

[cprompt]

Running this command

export LANG=en_US

before starting the

perl Makefile.PL

fixed it for me.

It also fixes the "perl -MCPAN -e"

method of upgrading as well.

[sander815]

anyone who succesfullt upgraded from 2.6x to 3.0x? If yes, what else did you have to change/install/edit etc.