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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:13:02 -0600
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>, "Michael Whitley" <mwhitley@czinetworks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port
Message-ID:  <001101c3e217$36bff1e0$0101a8c0@cascade>
References:  <000c01c3e1db$d1bd2ff0$0f8a23a6@open.wcomnet.com> <08497192-4DD7-11D8-A782-003065ABFD92@mac.com>

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Charles Swiger wrote:
> FreeBSD 4.8 should be recent enough that you can use a modern ports
> tree without the CONFLICTS feature causing problems, so use CVSUP to
> update your ports tree to the current version.  From there, install
> /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8, and then run "use.perl port".
>
> That should give you the latest version of Perl, from which you can
> then install the p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port (or spamass-milter, or
> amavisd, or whatever).  You can also try installing the software via
> "perl -MCPAN -e shell \;", and do an "install Mail::SpamAssassin", but
> the ports mechanism is better tested.

Why perl 5.8?  My 5.2 machine is running postfix, perl 5.6.1 and amavisd-new
without any trouble at all.

Tom Veldhouse




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