My company has the policy of not throwing away default build from the OS install.
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Details: Perl 5.005_03, SpamAssassin 2.63.
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Then you'll be stuck on SA 2.6x forever as SA 3.0 doesn't work with Perl 5.005. I suppose it's your choice, but IMO it's a crazy policy.
Bret