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From: Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to Install SpamAssassin on Fedora?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:17:50 -0500
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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.

-- 
Dan Espen