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This installation procedure is for installing SpamAssassin in native Windows (not Cygwin) using ActivePerl 5.8.46.810 811 or later 5.8.x.

1. Install or upgrade Perl if required:
   • If upgrading, make note of any modules you need to reinstall, uninstall ActivePerl and delete the /perl folder tree.
   • Download the current ActivePerl version 5.8.x from www.activestate.com.
   • Install it.
   • Get nmake from Microsoft: http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe
   • Extract the nmake.exe and nmake.err files into your /perl/bin folder
   • Use PPM to install the required perl modules:

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     ppm install Win32-Registry-File ppm install Net-DNS ppm install DB_File ppm install Time-HiRes ppm install IP-Country ppm install Mail-SPF-Query

     2. If you want to build spamc, install Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or later. For instructions on getting a no-cost version see BuildSpamcOnWindowsForFree. When you build SpamAssassin use a command prompt in which the VC++ environment variables are set.
     3. Download the SpamAssassin zip file from www.spamassassin.org
     4. Back up your settings if you already have it running.
     5. Stop and disable SpamAssassin if it's running
     6. Delete ~SpamAssassin directories, which may include:
   • c:\etc\mail\spamassassin
   • c:\perl\etc\mail\spamassassin
   • c:\perl\share\spamassassin
   • c:\perl\site\lib\mail\spamassassin.pm and spamassassin folder
   • c:\perl\etc\mail\spamassassin or c:\perl\site\etc\mail\spamassassin
   • c:\perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin or c:\spamdocs or whereever you put the docs last time
   • c:\perl\bin\spamassassin.* and c:\perl\bin\sa-learn.*
     7. The following system environment variables may have to be set:
   • RES_NAMESERVERS=<your-dns-server-ip-address>
     If you do not set this variable, SpamAssassin should use the first DNS server in your network configuration. That is useful when, for example, you move your computer between different networks and have DNS automatically assigned. If you experience problems with domain name resolution, try setting this variable to force SpamAssassin to use the specified nameserver.
   • LANG=en_US
     This used to be required for SpamAssassin to work with perl 5.8.x. It should no longer be necessary, but there is no harm in having it set. If you have trouble getting SpamAssassin to run, try setting this.
     8. Install SpamAssassin:
   • extract it to the c:\ folder with use folder names
   • in a command prompt: cd\mail-spamassassin-3.0.12
   • perl makefile.pl
     Answer the questions as they are asked.
   • nmake
   • nmake test
   • nmake install
     9. Generate the documentation. Make a batch file out of the following code and run it from the command prompt you started in the last step. This creates HTML documentation in the same directory structure that other perl documentation is already in, /perl/html/site/lib/mail/spamassassin.

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     REM Run from the top of the SpamAssassin install directory mkdir \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin mkdir \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced mkdir \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\plugins echo y|del \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\*.* echo y|del \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\*.* echo y|del \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\plugins\*.* call pod2html spamassassin.raw --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\spamassassin.html call pod2html sa-learn. --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\sa-learn.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\AutoWhiteList.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\AutoWhiteList.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\Bayes.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\Bayes.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\Message\Metadata.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\MessageMetaData.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\Message\Node.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\MessageNode.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\BayesStore\SQL.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\BayesStoreSQL.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\BayesStore.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\BayesStore.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\conf.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\conf.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\Conf\SQL.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\confSQL.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\Conf\LDAP.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\confLDAP.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\Conf\Parser.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\confParser.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\permsgstatus.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\permsgstatus.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\message.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\message.html --quiet call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\permsglearner.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\permsglearner.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\plugin.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\PluginsArchitecture.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\persistentaddrlist.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\Persistentaddrlist.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin\SQLBasedAddrList.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\SQLBasedAddrList.html call pod2html lib\mail\spamassassin.pm --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\advanced\spamassassinclass.html cd lib\mail\spamassassin\plugin for %%f in (*.*) do call pod2html %%f --outfile \perl\html\site\lib\mail\spamassassin\plugins\%%f.html --quiet cd ..\..\..\..

     10. Copy the backed up configuration files into the site configuration folder, probably c:\perl\site\etc\mail\spamassassin.
     11. Simple test (you should have no errors): spamassassin -D < sample-spam.txt
     12. Make a test folder on the D: drive. Copy sample-spam.txt and sample-nonspam.txt to that folder.
     13. Open a command prompt to that folder.
     14. Test the two files. Make sure they both run fine and the spam reports on each result file are appropriate.
   • spamassassin -D -t < sample-nonspam.txt > results-nonspam.txt
   • spamassassin -D -t < sample-spam.txt > results-spam.txt
     

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