sare rules

[Scott Silva]

on 7-16-2008 9:25 AM Jeff A. Earickson spake the following:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Richard Frovarp wrote:
> 
>> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:56:17 -0500
>> From: Richard Frovarp <richard.frovarp at sendit.nodak.edu>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: sare rules
>>
>> 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"
> 
> I ran this and that's what I got back.  What does this mean?  That the
> rules at dostech haven't changed since 6/2/2005?  ???
> 
> FYI, my daily script is:
> 
>    /opt/perl5/bin/sa-update --nogpg    (for SA rules)
> and
>    /opt/perl5/bin/sa-update --allowplugins --gpgkey 
> D1C035168C1EBC08464946DA258CDB3ABDE9DC10 --channel 
> saupdates.openprotect.com
> 
> for SARE rules.  My SA rules have not updated since the SA 3.2.5
> upgrade, and my SARE rules haven't changed in two or three months.
> I've been wondering about all of this.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
Like I posted earlier, sare rules are not being updated. This is from the 
front page of their website;
"IMPORTANT: Due to Ninjas being busy with lives, wives & hockey matches, SARE 
rules aren't being updated."

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