On 2026-04-25 at 20:34:28 UTC-0400 (Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:34:28 -0400)
FalconChristopher <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
I hope someone can help. I installed SpamAssissan using cpan. And
although everything installed correctly, and I checked where
SpamAssissan is installed. I'm unable to get it to run. I locate the
executable files but when I run, nothing happens ?
SpamAssassin is not one executable, it is a Perl module for classifying
mail as spam or 'ham' (i.e. non-spam) and can be used in many different
ways with mail servers and clients. You really need to know how you want
to use it for any of us to help you do that.
The most common use of SpamAssassin is integrated with a MTA (Sendmail,
Postfix, Exim, etc.) to filter mail as it arrives. That can be done with
a Milter program that loads the Mail::SpamAssassin module tree (e.g.
Amavis, MIMEDefang, MailMunge) and handles calling SA to do the message
analysis, or a Milter like spamass-milter that handles communication
with the 'spamd' daemon, which can run locally or remotely. It is also
possible to integrate SpamAssassin in a MTA's delivery path, using tools
like procmail, sieve, or Postfix's "content_filter" parameter.
Installed from CPAN, SpamAssassin has none of the add-on integrations
that are often done by distribution package maintainers, so you need to
figure out what you want to use and how you want to use it. The
installation from CPAN does no OS-specific or system-specific setup. See
'man spamassassin' for an overview of the documentation. If you wish to
use spamd, you will need to look at the various startup scripts included
in the spamd directory of the SA distribution to figure out which one
suits your OS and perhaps adapt it to your local details.
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