Automatic download of extra SA rule sets

[Ryan Finnesey]

What is a good SA list?


Ryan



> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Gerry Doris
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:46 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Automatic download of extra SA rule sets
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Stephen Swaney wrote:
> 
> > Chris Thielen has written a VERY complete and well thought out
script to
> > download the most commonly used SA rules files and posted a link to
his
> > script on the SA mail list:
> >
> >         http://sandgnat.com/cmos/rules_du_jour
> >
> > I have tested this script and it required only minor configuration
> changes
> > to work with MailScanner. It would also be very easy to extend the
> script to
> > get additional Rule Sets.
> >
> > A couple of caveats:
> >
> > 1. Test first with the Debug flag set.
> > 2. my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf was very old (and not needed).
> This
> > kept spamassassin --lint from running with out errors. I removed the
> file
> > and all was well.
> >
> > 3. Saving the file from a web browser created some problems, run:
> >
> >         wget    http://sandgnat.com/cmos/rules_du_jour
> >
> > to get the file.
> >
> > Steve
> 
> For what it's worth I've made a couple of changes to the script...
> - there was a small typo in one of weeds.cf download sections.  You
got
> weeds.cf instead of weeds_2.cf if you activated weeds_2.
> - I changed the spamassassin restart to MailScanner reload
> - and since we're going spamassassin rule crazy I added their latest
> evilnumbers.cf rule set.
> 
> The updated script is attached.
> 
> --
> Gerry
> 
> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer