ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 available!

[Martin Hepworth]

Jules

OK done the upgrade and whilst fiddling with the rules etc I note the
following from the UPGRADE docs..

- A significant amount of core functionality has been moved into
  plugins.  These include, AWL (auto-whitelist), DCC, Pyzor, Razor2,
  SpamCop reporting and TextCat.  For information on configuring these
  plugins please refer to their individual documentation:
  perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::* (ie AWL, DCC, etc)

- There are now multiple files read to enable plugins in the
  /etc/mail/spamassassin directory; previously only one, "init.pre" was
  read.  Now both "init.pre", "v310.pre", and any other files ending
  in ".pre" will be read.  As future releases are made, new plugins
  will be added to new files named according to the release they're
  added in.

so check the v310.pre as well as init.pre for the plugins..

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

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Sent: 15 September 2005 14:23
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Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 available!

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On 15 Sep 2005, at 10:21, Dhawal Doshy wrote:

> Pentland G. wrote:
>
>> Funny enough I was just installing it on one of my new machines.
>> CPAN install, Net::Ident isn't happy.
>> Linux, RHEL4-U1-i386 on Dell 2850.
>> Anyone else seen this?
>>
>
> This has been discussed before on the sa-users list.. the solution  
> is to ignore it since it's an optional module..
>
> Anyways here's my report in 3.1 as related to MailScanner. Comment  
> out the following in spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>
> RCVD_IN_RSL [no more used in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf]
> use_auto_whitelist [replaced with loadplugin  
> Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL in v310.pre]

Yes, that is no longer needed/wanted.

Does anyone know why init.pre does not include these lines:

loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL

Without them, these features aren't enabled at all, which will badly  
hit your spam success rate (particularly URIDNSBL).

And I've checked nothing else does them by default. Unless you add  
these lines, the module s' code isn't loaded, the last-access  
datestamp on the files isn't touched. So nothing is reading them  
without this addition.

Can someone add this to the wiki please?


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Julian Field
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