How To Install spamassassin-iXhash2 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamassassin-iXhash2 on CentOS 8.
What is spamassassin-iXhash2
iXhash2 is an unofficial improved version of the iXhash spam filter plugin for SpamAssassin, adding async DNS lookups for performance and removing unneeded features but fully compatible with the iXhash 1.5.5 (https MD5 checksums of fragments of the body of an e-mail and compares them to those of known spam using DNS queries to a RBL-like name server. So it works similar to the standard plugins that use the Pyzor, Razor and DCC software packages from within SpamAssassin.
We can use yum or dnf to install spamassassin-iXhash2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spamassassin-iXhash2.
Install spamassassin-iXhash2 on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install spamassassin-iXhash2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spamassassin-iXhash2
Install spamassassin-iXhash2 on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install spamassassin-iXhash2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spamassassin-iXhash2
How To Uninstall spamassassin-iXhash2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spamassassin-iXhash2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spamassassin-iXhash2
spamassassin-iXhash2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/mail/spamassassin/iXhash2.cf
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-iXhash2
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-iXhash2/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-iXhash2/README
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin-iXhash2/iXhash2.eml
/usr/share/licenses/spamassassin-iXhash2
/usr/share/licenses/spamassassin-iXhash2/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::iXhash2.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/iXhash2.pm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamassassin-iXhash2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.