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Subject: Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port
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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