Team, I thought I would share some of what I've figured out about the email server so far. Maybe some of the veterans can shine some light on the edges, and give us all a better picture.
As has been mentioned, the sa-update cron job has been commented out for some time. This was due to it "not working" (I've yet been able to find a cause, and haven't yet tried running it again to verify). The concern with turning it back on is that it'll clobber any existing profiles. From what I can gather, sa-update pulls down spam profiles into /var/lib/spamassassin/3.xx/, and these can be updated frequently. On my production Debian stable mail server, sa-update is part of the default cron.daily/spamassassin script. This /var/lib/spamassassin/ directory also has profiles for what appear to be all the lists managed on this box. Many of these seem to be standard, default list-name.pref/ folders, and the modify time on these files is 2004-2005. I think what I would like to try and do is tar up the /var/lib/spamassassin/ contents as an archive/backup, and run sa-update. Hopefully this will simply update the profiles (which don't seem to have been updated in years!), and all will be well. If there is a connection issue or something else related to sa-update I'll better be able to troubleshoot it after running it (sa-update -D for debug output). Also, the rules-du-jour script that was mentioned seems to be deprecated at this point. It appears that it is simply a bash wrapper around an update system to pull community spam profiles from the http://rulesemporium.com website, which is no longer being maintained. I don't think use of this script is going to help us much anymore. Again, what I would like to do is backup the current /var/lib/spamassassin contents, run sa-update (-D and/or --check-only) to verify it's functionality, and hopefully get the profiles updated. If sa-update doesn't work, or if it appears to cause problems, I can untar the backup into place, revert the changes and keep digging. Let me know what you think... -- Christer Edwards _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
