How often is the main rules channel updated?

[Dan Grossman <gr...@danielgrossman.org>]

I'm worried that my cronjob for sa-update is not working correctly, as it 
hasn't updated anything since I installed it on 12-12.

How often do new rules come out on the main spamassassin.org channel?  Are 
there announcements when that happens?

Thanks,
-dg

Re: How often is the main rules channel updated?

[Matt Kettler <mk...@verizon.net>]

James E. Pratt wrote:
>   
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dan Grossman [mailto:grossman@danielgrossman.org]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:21 PM
>>> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
>>> Subject: How often is the main rules channel updated?
>>>
>>> I'm worried that my cronjob for sa-update is not working correctly,
>>>       
> as
>   
>>> it
>>> hasn't updated anything since I installed it on 12-12.
>>>
>>> How often do new rules come out on the main spamassassin.org channel?
>>> Are
>>> there announcements when that happens?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -dg
>>>       
>
>
> In the past few months, there have been a few updates, but in general,
> they don't change all too often. There are no announcements either that
> I am aware of, unless they are on rulesemporium.com or openprotect.com.
>
> Regards,
> Jamie
>   
Also, if anyone wants to see the update history, they can always look at
the SVN tags..

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/tags/

The most recent tag for the 3.2 branch is:

sa-update_3.2_20071030131249
<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/tags/sa-update_3.2_20071030131249/>

And the start of the number at the end of the tag decodes to 2007-10-30,
or 2007-October-30th (the date is in that order so a numeric sort
automatically puts them in date order.)

Your files may differ in date stamp based on what date you actually ran
sa-update and grabbed them, but it shouldn't be any older than that..

(and yes, there's a lot more recent updates on the 3.3 branch, but
that's still a development branch. Because of this the dev are free to
push rules to that channel with less testing.)

RE: How often is the main rules channel updated?

["James E. Pratt" <jp...@norwich.edu>]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Grossman [mailto:grossman@danielgrossman.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:21 PM
>> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
>> Subject: How often is the main rules channel updated?
>> 
>> I'm worried that my cronjob for sa-update is not working correctly,
as
>> it
>> hasn't updated anything since I installed it on 12-12.
>> 
>> How often do new rules come out on the main spamassassin.org channel?
>> Are
>> there announcements when that happens?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -dg


In the past few months, there have been a few updates, but in general,
they don't change all too often. There are no announcements either that
I am aware of, unless they are on rulesemporium.com or openprotect.com.

Regards,
Jamie