SpamAssassin has been installed on many different platforms. The process has been automated on most common platforms, especially Linux, and there are only a few manual steps.
The prerequisites for installing SpamAssassin are:
Perl
C Compiler
Internet connection
Note
SpamAssassin version 3.0 requires Perl version 5.6.1 or greater. SpamAssassin 2.63 can be installed on older Perl versions.
SpamAssassin requires a recent version of the Perl language and may also require other Perl modules. These can all be freely downloaded from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) website http://www.cpan.org. The best way to install any module on the CPAN site is to use a specialized Perl module called CPAN.pm
. This is available from the CPAN website, and is part of recent Perl distributions. The CPAN module automates a lot of the mundane work related to installing Perl modules, including SpamAssassin and all of its prerequisites.
The exact requirements for any version of...