J.R. Constance writes: > I have been working through the instrucitons available at http:// > www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/
I believe these instructions are pretty old, and SpamAssassin has evolved significantly since then. > I get the following: > > warn: Unknown option: a > Usage: > spamd [options] Confirmation of the "golden oldie" status of the instructions. You really should read the man page and other documentation for spamd, spamassassin, and spamc. > i moved on to the next step (not using RPM's) which was: > > chkconfig --level 345 spamassassin on AFAIK chkconfig is Red Hat/RPM-specific. If you didn't install SpamAssassin from RPMs, this isn't going to work. > error reading information on service spamassassin: No such file or > directory Consistent with the above guess. Note that it's not a certainty that anybody here is a SpamAssassin expert with experience on your platform. While eventually you need to work with Mailman, at this stage I strongly recommend you ask about installing and testing SpamAssassin on platform and SpamAssassin channels, too. > Anybody have any ideas why this isn't working, or recommendations for > what else I can check? First, a caution. If you're serious about "locked-down" mode (eg, having your lists spammed or your server turned into a spammer zombie could cost your job), maybe you should hire an expert. It's not something that can be achieved by following recipes you find on the web. If you're willing to accept something more-or-less secure and you're on a Red Hat system, then I would recommend installing both SpamAssassin and Mailman from RPMs, and going on from there. If/when you run into trouble, specify the vendor and version of your OS, the versions of the Mailman and SpamAssassin packages, and reproduce both commands and the informational and error messages that they produce verbatim. If you're not on Red Hat, we'll need the system details as above. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp