Disabling auto sa-update in MailScanner

[Randal, Phil]

On reflection, the best way to do with this sort of thing (if you don't
trust the SA developers) is to 

(a)  edit the appropriate xx_scores.cf file in
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_org

(b)  after automatically or manually running sa-update, reapply whatever
tweaks you had before, spamassassin --lint, and fix.

The advantage to doing this way is that after an sa-update you won't get
a lint fail (though other things may cause you grief).

Cheers,

Phil

--
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Martin.Hepworth
> Sent: 27 November 2007 15:57
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Disabling auto sa-update in MailScanner
> 
> Ram
> 
> Sa-update is a manual thing, infact it will 'fix' the 
> completewhois crud in 3.2.3 by turning it off.
> 
> It's up to you to say when to run sa-update/rdj etc etc via 
> cron or whatever, MS doesn't get involved.
> 
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ramprasad
> > Sent: 27 November 2007 15:37
> > To: MailScanner discussion; ram
> > Subject: Disabling auto sa-update in MailScanner
> >
> > How can I disable sa-update in mailscanner
> >
> > Some rules added due to sa-update ( especially the 
> completewhois lookups
> > )  create problems for my server. I cannot disable the 
> rules by scoring
> > them 0 , because the actual rules are sometime removed by 
> sa-update and
> > a score of 0 in local.cf gives lint errors
> >
> > I simply want to run sa-update manually and I dont want Mailscanner
> > running it automatically for me
> >
> > How do I do this ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ram
> >
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