bernier wrote: > hi > i am not very technical so please help > > i have a debian server with spammassassin 3.000003. i guess this has never > been updated > > do i just use the cmd > > sa-update && service spamassassin restart > > what do i need to do? >
No. sa-update only updates the ruleset. It does not update the main code (ie: the engine). For that, you need to download and install a newer version (you can just install on top of the existing one). > how often should i update after it is updated? > sa-update? I'd run it once a day. However, if you stick with 3.0.x you can run it once and never again. It's highly doubtful there will be a rule update to the 3.0 rulesets. We're on 3.2.5 these days, and 3.3.0 is in the works. > can it be scheduled to be automatic? > Sure, you can cron-job it. > will i loose any configuration on the system? > Only if someone has mistakenly edited the default rules, instead of using local.cf to over-ride them. > there are local email accounts which are popped by a windows server > > are the updates primarly for improving what and how SA detects spam? > They're half of what SA uses to detect spam. The other half is the code base (Most of the header parsing and HTML decoding happens here).
