RE: Installing SpamAssassin on Slackware 14.2 - March 2023

[Kiptoo Kibowen]

Greetings to all you Linux fans!

Way back in 2021 I installed SpamAssassin on my Slackware Linux 14.2  mail server and the installation was straight forward.

Fast forward to March 2023, the hard disks on the mail server started complaining about imminent failure as reported by SMART.

Well, the most logical thing to do was:

1) Backup all user mailboxes including their sent items, drafts, junk and spam

2) Backup all system configuration & databases

3) Backup all other files

4) Replace faulty hard disks with other functional hard disks

5) Re-install Slackware Linux 14.2 on new hard disks and update the system

6) Reconfigure the mail server and all other services

8) Restore all files including mailboxes

9) Reinstall SpamAssassin --> this is where it gets complicated since many perl packages and also Slackware packages have been updated over the years

For all those desperate sysadmins at the end of their ropes ... hope this blog post points you in the right direction :)

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/tix-592494/march-2023-installing-spamassassin-on-slackware-14-2-38951/

Cheers and Enjoy!

Sincerely,

Ibrahim Kiptoo Kibowen

Tel: +254-726-430-830

Email: tkib...@gmail.com

:)

[Benson Muite]

On 3/22/23 22:10, Kiptoo Kibowen wrote:
> Greetings to all you Linux fans!
>
> Way back in 2021 I installed SpamAssassin on my Slackware Linux 14.2 
> mail server and the installation was straight forward.
>

Nice

> For all those desperate sysadmins at the end of their ropes ... hope
> this blog post points you in the right direction :)
>
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/tix-592494/march-2023-installing-spamassassin-on-slackware-14-2-38951/
>

Awesome. Would be great to hve something more complete in the LUG blog.
Would there be interest in running a mailserver for the LUG?