Re: Confused about how to use sa-update

[Phill Edwards <ph...@gmail.com>]

> But I don't understand how to use sa-update. I've run it and I can see
> all the new rule files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005. However, I
> think my rules run off the files in /usr/share/spamassassin/. The wiki
> at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates#Using_sa-update
> says NOT to use the "--updatedir" parameter to put updates in
> /usr/share/spamassassin. So how exactly do you get the new rule files
> into /usr/share/spamassassin so they start working? Do you just copy
> them across manually, or is there a way of getting sa-update to do it
> automatically?

OK - I've found an answer to my own question at
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269#c41 - "The
rules in /usr/share/spamassassin are not consulted if a directory
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.x exists. The sa-update only updates the
latter".

One other question I have which is more about this mailing list - is
the list actually still active? It seems to have extremely low traffic
for a product like spamassassin. And I've also found it can be quite
difficult to get replies to questions. It makes me wonder whether I'm
actually posting to the right place! Is this the official spamassassin
mailing list?

Re: [sa] Re: Confused about how to use sa-update

[Charles Gregory <cg...@hwcn.org>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Phill Edwards wrote:
> actually posting to the right place! Is this the official spamassassin
> mailing list?

Your own spam filter might be eating a lot of the messages?
Try setting a rule to score -100 on mail received from apache.org...

- C

Re: Confused about how to use sa-update

[Phill Edwards <ph...@gmail.com>]

> The list is definitely active. Now, is it 100 messages a minute? No..
> but your original post did get two replies providing the answer, both
> slightly over 2 hours after your question.

Yeah, I've subsequently found them on a Nabble list. For some reason
I'm not getting any email from this list into my Gmail mailbox. Other
mailing lists are coming through just fine, but not spamassassin. I
wondered if they'd been spammed by Gmail in some sort of delicious
twist of irony, but no. I have no idea why they're not showing up, but
am glad to hear that the list is so active!

Re: Confused about how to use sa-update

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

On 3/31/2010 9:10 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>> But I don't understand how to use sa-update. I've run it and I can see
>> all the new rule files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005. However, I
>> think my rules run off the files in /usr/share/spamassassin/. The wiki
>> at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates#Using_sa-update
>> says NOT to use the "--updatedir" parameter to put updates in
>> /usr/share/spamassassin. So how exactly do you get the new rule files
>> into /usr/share/spamassassin so they start working? Do you just copy
>> them across manually, or is there a way of getting sa-update to do it
>> automatically?
>>     
> OK - I've found an answer to my own question at
> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269#c41 - "The
> rules in /usr/share/spamassassin are not consulted if a directory
> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.x exists. The sa-update only updates the
> latter".
>
> One other question I have which is more about this mailing list - is
> the list actually still active? It seems to have extremely low traffic
> for a product like spamassassin. And I've also found it can be quite
> difficult to get replies to questions. It makes me wonder whether I'm
> actually posting to the right place! Is this the official spamassassin
> mailing list?
>
>   
The list is definitely active. Now, is it 100 messages a minute? No..
but your original post did get two replies providing the answer, both
slightly over 2 hours after your question.