Updated spamassassin to version 3

[Martin Hepworth]

Steve Swaney wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Philip Parsons
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:40 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Updated spamassassin to version 3
>>
>>We have just finished updating spamassassin to Version 3 and I remember
>>seeing something on this list about which extra rules you should remove if
>>you use rules_du_jour here is a list of the extra's I have.
>>
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        31854 May 31  2004 70_sare_adult.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3927 Apr 24  2004
>>70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       211390 Oct  3 18:18 70_sare_header.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       103436 Sep 12 18:22 70_sare_html.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11559 Sep 14 12:43 70_sare_oem.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        17548 Aug  9 08:34 70_sare_random.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          385 Sep 19 19:35 70_sare_ratware.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7006 Nov 17 10:48 70_sare_spoof.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13211 May 11  2004
>>72_sare_bml_post25x.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10147 May  1  2004
>>99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14284 Apr 28  2004 antidrug.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       104973 Jan  1 11:22 bogus-virus-
>>warnings.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        18052 Oct 30 10:30 evilnumbers.cf
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        57580 Apr  2  2004 tripwire.cf
>>
>>
>>Thank you.
>>Philip Parsons
>>
>
>
>
> Phil,
>
> You migh get rid of all files except a subset of the SpamAssassin Rules
> Emporium's Rules_Du_Jour files. Remove all of the *.cf files in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin and any rules_du_jour files in /etc/cron.daily.
>
> Then download the Rules_Du_Jour installation files from our website:
>
>         http://www.fsl.com/support/
>
> Untar this file and cd into the rules_du_jour directory that will be
> created, then read the INSTALL instructions. The install.sh script works
> properly on a Linux / sendmail / MailScanner /SpamAssassin 3.0x system. Any
> other combination is not guaranteed but the install script is extremely
> simple.
>
> Thr rules_du_jour_wrapper script which install in /etc/cron.daily will
> actually update the rules_du_jour script. The rules_du_jour script will
> update the additional rules daily if if updated rules are available. The
> bogus-virus-warnings.cf file that's installed is not updated since it's been
> modified to take out the all the MailScanner related rules that might catch
> valid local emails and notices.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.

Steve

another option is the my_rules_du_jour (from same site as
rules_du_jour...wwww.exit0.us), which does something similar to what
your script does.


--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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