SA 2.63 upgrade

[Jim Dickenson]

Thanks for the pointer about old .cf files not working with a new version.
This lead me to the solution.

I will try to remember this for future updates and leave a trail for those
behind me.

The install from the RPM was the cause of the problem. I now remember
dealing with this at some time in the past as well.

The perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63-1 RPM file put stuff in the 5.6.1 directory
but I am running perl 5.8.0 so the new .cf files got installed but as the
new perl stuff got put into the "wrong" place I was still using the old
version of SA.

Moving a bit of stuff around fixed the problem. I also made a link from
5.6.1 to 5.8.0 so maybe I will remember this in the future.

I guess the correct thing to do would be to uninstall the RPMs and install
SA some other way. Maybe another day. One wasted day is enough this time
around ;)

Again thanks much!
--
Jim Dickenson
mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com

Computers for Marketing Corporation
http://www.cfmc.com/



> From: James Gray <james at grayonline.id.au>
> Reply-To: james at grayonline.id.au
> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 09:43:04 +1100
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: SA 2.63 upgrade
>
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 07:16 am, Jim Dickenson wrote:
>> I am seeing the same problem. I updated, as I have always done, via RPM.
>> What I am seeing is that none of the standard rules are getting tripped,
>> just the RulesDuJour additions I have installed.
>>
>> I originally had the RulesDuJour .cf file in /usr/share/spamassassin
>> along with the ones distributed with SA. I have moved them to
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin but I am still seeing the same behavior.
>>
>> I also see that all the stuff that is spam is being auto-learned in my
>> bayes files. What is the best way to stop using bayes files and then
>> creating new ones. I need to get this problem sorted out before I can try
>> to get my bayes files loaded again.
>>
>> TIA,
>> --
>> Jim Dickenson
>
> Jim,
>
> I posted a similar problem to this list a few weeks ago when I upgraded my
> FreeBSD box via "ports" (fBSD "packages" for want of a better term).  All
> my custom rules were being tripped but none of the standard  SA2.63 rules.
> The problem was that between 2.61 -> 2.63 the fBSD port maintainer had
> moved the location of the standard rules from /usr/share/spamassassin to
> /usr/local/share/spamassassin.  All I needed to do was manually tell
> MailScanner where the SpamAssassin files were, restart and voila!
>
> Here's the relevent lines from MailScanner.conf:
> SpamAssassin Local Rules Dir = /etc/mail/spamassassin
> SpamAssassin Default Rules Dir = /usr/local/share/spamassassin
>
> Hope that helps :)  The problem is that all the default SA rules are
> version-specific.  You can ONLY use 2.63 rules with SA2.63 etc.  Sounds
> like your spamassassin is finding the older 2.61 rules with the 2.63 engine
> which means it will ignore them - have a look in the standard rules files;
> there's a "require 2.63" or something similar at the top of each one.  DONT
> change this BTW, this will break things even worse than it already is.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
> --
> Fortune cookies says:
> The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
> knowledge of its ugly side.  -- James Baldwin