Running on Debian stable

2006-08-17 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi all, I'm having a problem running spamassassin on Debian stable (version 3.1). All of my spam (and I get about 5-10/day) is being marked as ham with a score of 0.1. In the few days so far that I've ran it, nothing has been marked as spam except for the test spam file which came with

RE: Running on Debian stable

2006-08-17 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Gary, On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Gary V wrote: I would suggest installing a newer version from backports.org. Thanks for the suggestion! I was not aware of backports.org at all. I could also go up to testing or *gasp* unstable, but I really don't want to. I'm not a very good system

Re: Running on Debian stable

2006-08-20 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Loren, On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: For the main rules files you basically can't do this. It would theoreticaly be possible, but it would take someone a lot of work to figure out what could be done and then do it. It is far easier to update the whole package, which will

Re: Running on Debian stable

2006-08-20 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Michel, On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Michel Vaillancourt wrote: Hi, Ray. I'm a Debian admin as well. However, my experience has been that for Spamassassin in particular, don't use the .deb package. Instead, run the CPAN install process; I have it set as a CRON job that fires monthly. You'll

RE: Running on Debian stable

2006-08-20 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Gary and others, On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Gary V wrote: read this, it may validate your choice to stay stable: http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/kernel.html No, I'll definitely stay with stable. I have dabbled with testing for a bit and it was fun learning about Debian and breaking it and

RE: Running on Debian stable

2006-08-22 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Gary, On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Gary V wrote: installs an initscript, so there are advantages. Mixing both methods is often a bad thing however. Ok, I'll definite refrain myself from doing that. Are you using DCC/Razor2/Pyzor? Are they (along with other network based tests) working?

SA settings

2006-08-22 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi all, Not pertaining to Debian (I think)... I was wondering in what order are SA's settings read in. Is this correct: 1) /etc/spamassassin/init.pre 2) /etc/spamassassin/local.cf 3) /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf 4) ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs I also have a v310.pre and a v312.pre in

Re: SA settings

2006-08-22 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Theo, On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: 1) /etc/spamassassin/init.pre 2) /etc/spamassassin/local.cf 3) /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf 4) ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs You could just read the spamassassin documentation which talks about all of this. :) But to answer your

RE: SA settings

2006-08-22 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Bowie, On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: Raymond Wan wrote: 1) /etc/spamassassin/*.pre 2a) /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003/updates_spamassassin_org/*.cf (if the directory exists) 2b) /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf (if the previous directory doesn't exist) 3) /etc/spamassassin

Re: SA settings

2006-08-22 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi jdow, On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, jdow wrote: Never change /etc/share/spamassassin or the /var/lib/spamassassin directories. Always change /etc/spamassassin/ or /etc/mail/spamassassin as appropriate for your install. You can override values set earlier with new ones. That change should probably