Installation

In this example, we show how to install DSPAM under Sendmail using Procmail as the delivery agent. We assume a Linux installation here.

First, download the source tar file from the DSPAM web site: http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/sources/dspam-3.0.0.tar.gz. After downloading, move it to /usr/local/src and unpack and install it as follows:

bash$ tar xzvf dspam-3.0.0.tar.gz
bash$ cd dspam-3.0.0
bash$ ./configure --with-delivery-agent=/usr/bin/procmail \
--with-db4-includes=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/include \
--with-db4-libraries=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib
bash$ make
bash$ sudo make install

The configure statement in this example tells DSPAM to use /usr/bin/procmail as the delivery agent and to use Berkeley DB4 as ...

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