sare rules

Richard Frovarp richard.frovarp at sendit.nodak.edu
Tue Jul 15 17:56:17 IST 2008


mailsysteam at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have followed Julian's instructions "HOWTO: Adding extra rulesets to 
> SpamAssassin" from July 2007 and I am a bit lost. Can someone help please?
>
> I am using his /etc/mail/spamassassin/jkf-channel-list.txt to list the 
> channels I want, but the update doesn't work, I am not getting any new 
> cf files.
>
> If I run
> /usr/bin/sa-update -D --channelfile 
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/jkf-channel-list.txt --gpgkey 856AA88A
>
> I get dns errors like:
> dns: query failed: 
> 4.1.3.99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net 
> <http://4.1.3.99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net> => 
> NXDOMAIN
> channel: no updates available, skipping channel
>
> I am using MailScanner version 4.70.6
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction please?
>
> Steve
It should work. What happens when you run

dig +short -t txt 4.1.3.99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net

You should get back: "200506020000"

It looks like you have DNS problems.


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