Help needed with mailscanner

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi Jon,

Jon Miller wrote:
> For number 2 you need to be more explicit in what you mean by
> updates. The whole system you describe is made up of many components,
> pulled together by Mailscanner.  Each of these can be updated, but
> the method for each may be different.  Do you want to upgrade th
> various components to newer versions?  Do you want to make sure the
> virus checkers are updating their virus libraries?  Do you want to
> update the spam detection rules of SpamAssassin?
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply: for now until a new system is put together and
> tested I want to make sure that the spam detection rules of
> SpamAssassin are up to date.  I can do the Sophos updates. Currently
> not interested in upgrading the MailScanner program.

This largely depends on what version you are running, run this from the 
command line:

spamassassin -V

Newer versions of SpamAssassin have a process called sa-update which 
downloads updated versions of the core SpamAssassin rules.

There is also the add-on rules supplied by the SpamAssassin Rules 
Emporium (SARE) people http://www.rulesemporium.com/.  These rules can 
be updated using the RulesDuJour program.

You might also get better help if you ask your question on the 
spamassasin-users list which is just as friendly and helpful as this 
list.  http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists

-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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