Think I found why SAREs rules weren't working.

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

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> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:00 PM
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> Subject: Think I found why SAREs rules weren't working.
> 
> OK, I feel a little blushy now, but this is what I found about why my
SARE
> rule
> sets weren't working.
> 
> A little background -
> 
> For some time, auto-learn hasn't been working. I noticed this a while
> back, but
> just thought it might have been due to a great set of Bayes files.
> 
> I also noticed that the SARE rules were catching a lot (none, in
fact),
> but just
> noticed the "none" part today with the recent thread on "New SPAM
emails
> recently".
> 
> I have both SARE adult and stocks in my /etc/mail/spamassassin folder.
> 
> When I would update the rules database for MailWatch from the Tools
menu,
> they
> showed up. When I ran Spamassassin Lint test from the same menu,
nothing
> showed
> up as a problem. The problem was I never noticed that a lot of the
rules
> files
> weren't  showing up. I use a lot of Sendmail access table entries and
was
> doing
> pretty well without the rules.
> 
> So I was given a false sense of "rightness" until I ran into these
"Hi"
> emails
> and they weren't being trapped.
> 
> I soon discovered that the setting in MailScanner.conf, SpamAssassin
Site
> Rules
> Dir, was blank, apparently from a past update that I didn't catch. At
one
> point,
> this folder _was_ being used. After setting this to
> "/etc/mail/spamassassin",
> all is well now. It must not use the default I thought it did.
> 
> AutoLearn even works now.
> 
> Hope this helps someone else.
> 
> Steve Campbell
> 
> 
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Glad to here all is better.



Billy Pumphrey
IT Manager
Wooden & McLaughlin
http://www.billypumphrey.com

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