Beta release: 4.62.2

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jul 9 22:20:34 IST 2007


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James wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
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>> I have just released a new beta to support the SAUPDATEARGS setting 
>> in /etc/MailScanner/sysconfig for easy implementation of the HOWTO I 
>> just published on adding extra rulesets to SpamAssassin without 
>> having to use RulesDuJour.
>>
>> The full Change Log is this:
>>
>> * New Features and Improvements *
>> 1 Improved non-Linux installer.
>> 1 Improved Linux installer.
>> 1 Updated OpenBSD installation guide. Thanks to Jeremy Evans for this.
>> 1 Upgraded MIME::Base64 to 3.07.
>> 1 Improved error reporting for clamd permissions problems. Thanks Rick.
>> 2 Added SAUPDATEARGS to /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner and
>>   /usr/sbin/update_spamassassin. For a good use of this, see
>>   http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt and 
>> search
>>   for "HOWTO" in the Subject: line of the MailScanner-discussion list 
>> archive.
>>   This process replaces RulesDuJour entirely.
>>   Another good ruleset to add to your setup is
>>   http://www.peregrinehw.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf
>>   To download this automatically every night, fetch
>>   http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/KAM.cf.sh and put it in 
>> /etc/cron.daily
>>   and make it executable (type "chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/KAM.cf.sh").
>>
>> Jules
>>   
> Installed and working fine :) The directions you had posted regarding 
> sa-update were helpfull, thanks.
> My question is this: In the /etc/cron.daily/update_spamassassin script 
> there is comment about the default
> behavior and that it can cause problems if implimented. Is there any 
> reason that I should not enable this script as I do want the
> daily updates vi sa-update ? Should I make my own cron for this then?
Sorry, that comment is rather out of date now. I'll remove it. It's 
quite safe these days, the problems were from the first release of 
SpamAssassin's sa-update program.

Jules

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