Beta release: 4.62.2

Ed Bruce theodrake at comcast.net
Tue Jul 10 14:25:54 IST 2007


Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> 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 Sorry, that comment is rather out of date now.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
>
That had me worried too.

I am running the beta on my secondary MTA and all appears to be working.
Just got my first email notification that KAM.cf.sh ran sucessfully.
Also got a debug output from update_spamassassin and all looks good
there also.


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