Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
R-Elists wrote on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:56:22 -0800:

 i appreciate your input, yet i really wanted Warren to answer for his blog
 post on it in specific terms related to SA
 
 i can handle absolutes pretty easy...
 
 if we shouldnt use SARE with 3.3.x, no prob.

How long have you been following *this* list? Anyone following this list with 
open eyes and mind should have understood a long timee ago that SARE rules 
don't add much value nowadays and *in general* because the SA internal rules 
get updated regularly and have also incorporated some SARE rules. (* some 
rules or rulesets may still be adding good value to some people's 
mailsystems. Judge yourself.)

 
 yet if ambiguous, then it needs to get more granular in the text that help
 and direct people
 
 in regards to 3.2.5, it makes a difference there too...
 
 since SARE isnt really supported anymore, realistically it should be pulled
 and only used as a reference archive, or have HEAVY recommendations not to
 use it and appropriate warnings.

You may want to talk this out with the SARE maintainers. SARE has never been 
officially endorsed as a must-have, so there's no need to pull it 
officially either. I think it also helps to read the first page of the 
site. SARE has always made clear that you should not add rulesets blindly 
(*). You always have to track the results and then reconsider. If you did 
that and they are largely unhelpful you pulled them already and if they are 
still helpful you keep using them (or rather a subset of them). 
(* despite most people just doing that. The advice for these is very clear: 
don't use them.)

Kai

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RE: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-29 Thread R-Elists

 
 Just try it out. You will find that the detection rate 
 without SARE is excellent and there's likely no benefit from 
 SARE. Most SARE are well outdated. This applies to 3.2.5 as well.
 
 Kai
 

Kai

i appreciate your input, yet i really wanted Warren to answer for his blog
post on it in specific terms related to SA

i can handle absolutes pretty easy...

if we shouldnt use SARE with 3.3.x, no prob.

yet if ambiguous, then it needs to get more granular in the text that help
and direct people

in regards to 3.2.5, it makes a difference there too...

since SARE isnt really supported anymore, realistically it should be pulled
and only used as a reference archive, or have HEAVY recommendations not to
use it and appropriate warnings.

tia

 - rh



RE: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-28 Thread Spamassassin List
 http://wtogami.livejournal.com/33674.html

 If you use spamassassin on Fedora or RHEL5, please see my blog post for 
 RPM packages and distro-specific notes.

quote

* STOP USING SARE or OpenProtect.  They died a long time ago.  Some of
their rules are dangerous or redundant.  Many of the better rules were
integrated into spamassassin upstream.

So how do I stop using sare or openprotect?



Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Spamassassin List wrote on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:24:27 +0800:

 So how do I stop using sare or openprotect?

remove the rules?
remove the channels?

I suppose you know if you use them or not, do you?

Kai

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RE: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-28 Thread Spamassassin List
 So how do I stop using sare or openprotect?

 remove the rules?
 remove the channels?

 I suppose you know if you use them or not, do you?

Yes I am using it. Since the blog advise to stop using it, 
thus I am wondering how do I do so? I had remove the sa-update
from my crontab. Do I need to remove all those dostech_net.cf
files?

regards




Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Spamassassin List wrote on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:38:21 +0800:

 I had remove the sa-update
 from my crontab.

You have to keep using sa-update! Just not these channels!

Do I need to remove all those dostech_net.cf
 files?

Of course. You have to remove everything from 
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.003000 that you do not want to use. As an example, 
that is what remains here:

70_zmi_german_cf_zmi_sa-update_dostech_net sought_rules_yerp_org
70_zmi_german_cf_zmi_sa-update_dostech_net.cf  sought_rules_yerp_org.cf
90_2tld_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net  updates_spamassassin_org
90_2tld_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net.cf   updates_spamassassin_org.cf

Kai

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RE: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-28 Thread Spamassassin List
 Of course. You have to remove everything from 
 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.003000 that you do not want to use. As an example,

 that is what remains here:

Thank you



RE: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-28 Thread R-Elists
 

 -Original Message-
 From: Spamassassin List [mailto:spamassassinl...@gmail.com] 
 Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:24 AM
 To: 'Warren Togami'; 'SpamAssassin Dev'; 'SpamAssassin Users List'
 Subject: RE: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL
 
  http://wtogami.livejournal.com/33674.html
 
  If you use spamassassin on Fedora or RHEL5, please see my blog post 
  for RPM packages and distro-specific notes.
 
 quote
 
 * STOP USING SARE or OpenProtect.  They died a long time 
 ago.  Some of their rules are dangerous or redundant.  Many 
 of the better rules were integrated into spamassassin upstream.
 
 So how do I stop using sare or openprotect?
 
 

Warren and Others...

just for clarification...

by this website are you saying that we should only stop using SARE and
OpenProtect on 3.3.0 and later...

or are you saying that some of the SARE rules were put into 3.2.5 ???

tia

 - rh



Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
R-Elists wrote on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:41:23 -0800:

 by this website are you saying that we should only stop using SARE and
 OpenProtect on 3.3.0 and later...
 
 or are you saying that some of the SARE rules were put into 3.2.5 ???

Just try it out. You will find that the detection rate without SARE is 
excellent and there's likely no benefit from SARE. Most SARE are well 
outdated. This applies to 3.2.5 as well.

Kai

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Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-26 Thread Charles Gregory

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Warren Togami wrote:

http://wtogami.livejournal.com/33674.html
If you use spamassassin on Fedora or RHEL5, please see my blog post for RPM 
packages and distro-specific notes.


Anyone know where to find a RHEL(CentOS) 4 rpm?
Or will it appear in the CentOS 4 official update channels in due time?

- C


Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Charles Gregory wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:10:51 -0500 (EST):

 Anyone know where to find a RHEL(CentOS) 4 rpm?
 Or will it appear in the CentOS 4 official update channels in due time?

Just do yourself. Follow the instructions on the download page, it's a 
*one liner* !

Kai

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Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-26 Thread Warren Togami

On 01/26/2010 03:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Charles Gregory wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:10:51 -0500 (EST):


Anyone know where to find a RHEL(CentOS) 4 rpm?
Or will it appear in the CentOS 4 official update channels in due time?


Just do yourself. Follow the instructions on the download page, it's a
*one liner* !

Kai



FWIW, RHEL4 is older than anything I expect that .src.rpm to work with. 
 You may also need to build your own perl modules that might be missing.


Warren


Re: spamassassin-3.3.0 for Fedora/RHEL

2010-01-26 Thread Charles Gregory

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Charles Gregory wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:10:51 -0500 (EST):

Anyone know where to find a RHEL(CentOS) 4 rpm?
Or will it appear in the CentOS 4 official update channels in due time?

Just do yourself. Follow the instructions on the download page, it's a
*one liner* !


Ideally I want to keep things 'download and install' so that the 
proverbial trained monkey can recreate this server in future.

There is also the minor advantage of having someone else *test* the
rpm so that any issues are resolved before I try to run it on a live 
system


But yes, if there is no 'official' rpm forthcoming, I will be building
my own. (smile) But I figured I would see what is in the pipe first...

- C