> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:30:40 -0400 Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com> wrote:
> > On 8/11/2010 3:30 PM, John Hardin wrote:
> > > The current situation is: automatic rule updates are only generated
> > > when the corpa of recent messages used in the nightly masscheck is
> > > sufficiently large (150k+ of both spam and ham, IIRC), and that's
> > > been difficult to achieve for a while due to ham starvation. More
> > > volunteers to perform nightly local masschecks of fresh ham corpora
> > > and upload the results, or to maintain and upload non-private ham
> > > corpora to the nightly masscheck server, would be most welcome!
> > In case anyone else is following this...
> >
> > The sa-update process made things a bit more complex than simply
> > renaming the file after updates. If that's all you do, then sa-update
> > loses track of the file and will download a new copy on every run.
> > What I had to do is this:
> >
> > 1) Rename the .cf file back to the original name so sa-update can
> > find it 2) Run sa-update
> > 3) Rename the .cf file to z_sought_rules_yerp_org.cf
> > 4) Restart spamd
> >
> > You don't have to mess with the directory, just rename the main
> > sought_rules_yerp_org.cf file.
>
> Would it not be simpler just to do something like this
Sadly, no.
The problem is, that not only the sub-rules change, but with them the
actually scored meta rules, combining these sub-rules by OR-ing them.
That means, stale meta rules in stock will override the fresh meta
rules, effectively discarding all fresh sub-rule matches.
Bottom line: If the dedicated sought channel is more up-to-date and
updated more frequently, using that one in *addition* to (faster) aging
stock rules currently needs careful hacks -- to preserver the precious
meta.
Or, well, any SA or channel provided method, to tweak the order. SA
method would be a new feature. Channel method would be a rename, to come
last in alphabetical order.
Bummer. :( This is a real problem and worth filing a bug.
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