Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora?

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote:

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.
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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
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But what more do I need to do?

On 2025-02-14, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

If your friend is retiring, why not ask him? Maybe you can take over the
service? =)

I really do not want to start another marginal business at this point.
I would have been much more pleased if there was someone else, I could
just hand it to: Set my MX records to their "scrubber" and get the "good
mail" delivered to port 25 or 587 on my server. But if such exist, it is
not set up to work for my size of business. Rackspace can host a custom
domain on their mail server, from where I (or my users) can pick it up
with IMAP, but (a) migrating my archives out to their IMAP serverr would
be a pain (and they don't want to have hundreds of GB of my mail on
their server, so they charge for that) and (b) they would not let me run
/mailman/ ...

If not, here's a link,
https://notes.sagredo.eu/en/qmail-notes-185/installing-and-configuring-spamassassin-37.html
, but I assume you already have a handful of tutorials that were not what
you were looking for.

No, this assumes that I have already read a manual's worth of setup
detail. I am looking for no more than 5 pages that will get me to a
running system, where I can then upgrade the filters incrementally in
due time.

But two clicks away from that page, I got to  this, which is much closer
to what I am looking for:
   https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/StartUsing

As ever, the problem is not that there is no documentation, or even that
there is no documentation at the level I am looking for, but tht there
is so much documentation (much of it redundant) tht the stuff I want
drowns in the sea of additional stuff.