Here's my situation: I lease a host from a provider. They initially did all my setup, and I do the simple maintenance I need. A short time ago, the spam increased dramatically. Others on this list reported it, and a common suggested problem was that the installed Spamassassin was badly out of date. Mine is 3.0.4, and I probably fall into that category.
I called my co-hosting provider and asked to have Spamassassin upgraded. They told me that to do this would require an upgrade to my Fedora core, which would require an upgrade to this, and to that, and I'd then need to reinstall those... Bottom line is that the whole ordeal will cost me thousands of dollars, which I simply don't have. My gut feeling is that a SA upgrade *could* be done, but they see an opportunity to get some cash out of me, and they know they've got me by the short hairs. I do a lot of my own installations without any problem, but the thing is that I've got a couple dozen customers using Spamassassin, and if I crash and burn on the upgrade, it won't be a pretty situation. So... I was wondering if it's possible to install an alternate version of Spamassassin and verify that it's working properly before burning my bridge on the outdated (but working) version I've currently got installed. Thanks for any advice. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com
