Unattended spamassassing installation

["Oliver Schulze L." <ol...@samera.com.py>]

Hi,
I'm new in SpamAssassin, and I just installed it.
I'm running SA with Razor2 and Mimedefang. All is wokring fine.

I wonder how un-atended can I left the installation in order to SA to
continue detecting spam.

Should I run some scripts every few days in order to keep the
"definitions" up to date? Or the Bayesian filter just keep learning
and learning.

Many thanks
Oliver

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Oliver Schulze L.
<ol...@samera.com.py>

Re: Unattended spamassassing installation

[JamesDR <ro...@bellsouth.net>]

Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new in SpamAssassin, and I just installed it.
> I'm running SA with Razor2 and Mimedefang. All is wokring fine.
> 
> I wonder how un-atended can I left the installation in order to SA to
> continue detecting spam.
> 
> Should I run some scripts every few days in order to keep the
> "definitions" up to date? Or the Bayesian filter just keep learning
> and learning.
> 
> Many thanks
> Oliver
> 
Well, SA is always attended, by way of the headers. So, if you have a 
low volume of spam/ham you could probably leave it alone. There are 
scripts to update the rules, check the wiki for these.  Autolearn is ok, 
but this requires some watching to make sure your bayes isn't being 
corrupted by false learning.

My setup at work has a low volume of spam/ham and I only attend to it 
every other week on Friday to make sure everything is still working. I 
check the logs, make sure the db is still working (mysql) properly etc 
etc.  This goes along with the normal check of the other components of 
the system. I can see, with every mail, if sa is still working via the 
headers. If they stop appearing in the mails; I know then that something 
is not working properly.

My 2c

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Thanks,
JamesDR