[ILUG] spamassassin upgrading - thanks!

[Brian Foster]

 this is a note of thanks to the ‘spamassassin’ folks....
 for some yonks now, I've been happily using a custom 3.1.8 
 installation on SUSE 9.1 (née c.2.6.4 ?).  all my HDDs, and
 my power supply (PS), crapped out over the last few months,
 so I've been having a rather continuing series of assorted
 and unpleasant nightmares.  ;-(

 I've finally got a new HDD and PS installed, and Kbuntu 9.10
 (no problems to-date) installed, and recovered (most of) my
 critical data.  one thing that was scaring me was getting the
 e-mail put back together, with my odd and old spamassassin
 (especially the Bayes database) being the largest worry (mostly
 since I've never ever upgraded ‘spamassassin’ before!).

 as it happens, there were (almost) NO problems:  copying the
 old config files, and/or editing the new ones, all in a very
 trivial and obvious manner, was all it took (this applies not
 only to ‘spamassassin‘ but to the MTA (postfix) and MUA (nmh)).

 [KU]buntu's 9.10 ‘spamassassin’ (3.2.5) had no problems at
 all with using my elderly 3.1.8 config and database — the only
 puzzle I ran into was ‘spamc’s ‘-p<PORT>’ option must now be
 written ‘-pPORT’ (sans space) in the ‘.procmailrc’ rather
 than ‘-p PORT’ (with space).  annoying, and the diagnostic
 was less than clear, but not very serious.   (please don't
 ask me now why I'm using a non-standard PORT number, I no
 longer recall why, and also failed to note the  reason in
 a comment/documentation....  ;-\   (which is really Really
 embarrassing, since a lack of rationale is one of my most
 common reasons for rejecting/re-working submitted patches
 in my job!  ;-€  )).

 anyways, thanks to the ‘spamassassin’ team for ensuring the
 user-local data (prefs & Bayes database & (mostly) command
 lines) are compatible between the 3.1 and 3.2 versions!

cheers & happy new years!
	-blf-

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