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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

You're reading from  SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2004
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811121
Pages 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

SpamAssassin
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Introduction
1. Introducing Spam 2. Spam and Anti-Spam Techniques 3. Open Relays 4. Protecting Email Addresses 5. Detecting Spam 6. Installing SpamAssassin 7. Configuration Files 8. Using SpamAssassin 9. Bayesian Filtering 10. Look and Feel 11. Network Tests 12. Rules 13. Improving Filtering 14. Performance 15. Housekeeping and Reporting 16. Building an Anti-Spam Gateway 17. Email Clients 18. Choosing Other Spam Tools Glossary

Resolving Build Failures


If the SpamAssassin module fails to build, there are three probable reasons:

  • There is a missing dependency.

  • SpamAssassin has failed to build for some reason.

  • One or more automatic tests of the SpamAssassin module have failed.

In these conditions, CPAN will not install the module.

If a dependency is missing, it will be reported during the initial perl Makefile.PL as a warning. If this dependency is not resolved, then when make test is run, some tests for the module will probably fail. Additionally, the module may fail to operate properly if installed. The solution is to install the dependency and repeat the testing process. If SpamAssassin fails to build, this will probably be due to the non-compilation of the parts of SpamAssassin written in C. If this happens, the C compiler should be upgraded to a newer version.

Most Perl modules use a common build system that includes automatic tests. These tests are part of the package and the SpamAssassin module should pass all tests...

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