On 2025-06-10 at 12:21:38 UTC-0400 (Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:21:38 +0200)
Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net>
is rumored to have said:
The file
/var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
is ignored on my Debian/stable server.
Are you 100% certain of that?
Running 'spamassassin --lint -D config' will give you a rundown of the
config files as they get loaded. Somewhere in the middle of the output
should be 4 lines like this:
dbg: config: fixed relative path:
/var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
dbg: config: using
"/var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf"
for included file
dbg: config: read file
/var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
dbg: config: parsing file
/var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
If they are there, that file IS loaded and parsed by SA. If they're not
present, there should be clues in whatever SA does emit.
Why?
You likely need to ask the package maintainer for Debian. They have
historically made significant changes.
That file is NOT ignored by the ASF-distributed version of SA if
$LOCALSTATEDIR is defined as /var/lib/spamassassin/ at build time for
both the Mail::SpamAssassin* Perl modules and sa-update.
What part of the config is expected to load this file?
Files in $LOCALSTATEDIR/$VERSION/$CHANNEL/ directories are loaded in
lexical order.
This is not configurable at run time. You also should NOT edit any files
under $LOCALSTATEDIR. It is wiped and repopulated by sa-update, which
should be run daily.
AFAIK, the only files under /etc/spamassassin I have changed are
local.cf and v310.pre (the other changes are due to the various
upgrades since 2017).
Those changes would not affect where SA looks for the
updates_spamassassin_org rules channel.
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