On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 15:33 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > I think something like this would be good: > > $ tar xvfz Mail-SpamAssassin-xxx.tar.gz > $ cd Mail-SpamAssassin-xxx > $ perl Makefile.PL > [...] > > The following RBLs have certain usage restrictions. Would you like to > enable them? If unsure, say Y. (Y/N): [Y] > [... a list of RBLs, preferably with links to their policy pages ...] > > so that at installation time, SA users are at least aware of the issues. > The only problem with this that I can see is, unfortunately, a biggish one: it won't work for the package installs that I and, at a guess, a lot of small installations use. I run the Fedora distro, and so the version of SA I'm running is that installed and periodically updated by yum.
I like the idea of the tool though, particularly if it can link to descriptions of each RBL and, hopefully, to the masscheck results for it. From my POV a post-install tool, and especially one that can be re-run periodically, would be a lot more useful. Martin
