Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora?

From	Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora?
Date	2025-02-14 22:45 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2025-02-14, Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> writes:
>
>> As part of my nerdy home system, I have a Fedora Linux server, which is
>> my file server, my web server and my mail server. For almost 20 years,
>> my incoming mail was scrubbed by a spam filtering service operated by my
>> friend in Switzerland, but he is now retiring, so I need to do this for
>> myself now.
>>
>> I figure the tool of choice is spamassassin, but where do I find a
>> reasonably simple how-to guide? I assume I cannot just
>>     dnf install spamassassin
>>     systemctl enable spamassassin.service
>>     systemctl start spamassassin.service
>>
>> But what more do I need to do?
>
> dnf install spamassassin
>
> works fine.
>
> You may or may not need to start it as a service, that's up to you.
> "spamd" just makes it run a little faster.
>
> The man page should be sufficient to figure out the rest.

So these 3 commands are likely to work, without screwing anything up?

Does spamassassin take over the submission port without any editing of
sendmail.cf? (Most descriptions of spamassassin assume that you are
running procmail. I figured out a sendmail.cf 30 years ago, and have not
had to page all of that in for at least 20 years.)

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How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-02-14 21:47 +0000
  Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-02-14 22:53 +0100
    Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-02-14 22:39 +0000
      Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-02-15 00:44 +0000
  Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2025-02-14 17:17 -0500
    Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-02-14 22:45 +0000
      Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-02-15 01:06 +0000
  Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-14 23:41 +0000
    Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-02-15 01:06 +0000

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