ot, spamassassin question

[John G. Heim]

Well, I'm not sure about the bayesian plugin module but I know spamassassin 
checks for some modules before trying to load them and if they aren't 
available the features they are used for just don't work. So I suppose it's 
possible that spamassassin would just go on merrily checking messages even 
if the bayesian plugin is missing.

Man, now you're really testing my memory. There is a way to run the 
spamassassin service in the foreground so you can see its output. It 
displays a list of perl modules it looked for and whether it found them.  I 
think if you just say, 'man spamassassin' you can find that.

But otherwise you can also check if the module is there in the perl 
interpreter itself. Just type 'perl' at the command line and then 'Use 
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Bayes ;' Or you could write a quick script to do 
it:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Bayes;

If the above 2 line script works, then the plugin is installed.   If you 
installed spamassassin via a package manager, I would think all necessary 
perl modules would be installed as dependencies.   It doesn't seem likely to 
me that the plugin would be missing.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: ot, spamassassin question


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> Hi again.
>
> One more thing that occurred to me is that the
> Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Bayes plugin might not be installed, is
> that possible? There is a line in one of the pre files in
> /etc/spamassassin that loads it, and it's not commented. I did try
> perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Bayes
> but it tells me there's no documentation. Perl is not one of my strong
> points, so I'm not sure how to check if the plugin is installed, or
> how I'd install it if it's not there. If someone could please point me
> in the right direction there, I'd appreciate it. Thanks again.
>
> Greg
>
> P.S. I don't get any errors about missing plugins during spamd
> startup, or in the mail logs when spamd is scanning messages.
>
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