[Mimedefang] SpamAssassin 2.60

[James Ralston]

On 2003-09-24 at 07:53:32-0700 Jeff Grossman <jeff at stikman.com> wrote:
> Has anybody starting using SpamAssassin 2.60?

We've been using it for a few days.

Three things to watch out for:

    1.  Many config file options are now deprecated, or removed
        entirely.  Read the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf man page to learn
        how to best update your sa-mimedefang.cf file.  (For example,
        the "clear_headers" option.)

    2.  SpamAssassin 2.60 depends on perl-DB_File in order for the
        Bayesian features to work.  But if you don't have perl-DB_File
        installed, the Bayesian features simply don't work, and
        there's no obvious error message.

        (I build RPMs of SpamAssassin, and rpmbuild didn't
        automatically detect the perl(DB_File) dependency.  I had to
        manually put the appropriate BuildRequires and Requires in the
        SPEC file.)

    3.  I believe that 2.60 can auto-upgrade Bayesian databases
        created by previous versions, but I didn't test that; I
        figured it would be easier to archive the old databases and
        let 2.60 build new databases from scratch.

Regards,

-- 
James Ralston, Postmaster General
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA