I was wondering whether it is possible to update the rules and not the
software. I guess not? spamassassin in Debian is one package? But
anyway, I'll do your backports.org suggestion -- thanks!
To an extent you can do this. For instance www.rulesemporium.com releases a
number of addon rules files that can be used with different version of SA.
Be aware that the allowed rule types changes from release to release, so
some rule sets have different versions for different releases. If you get
the wrong one things won't work right, and may not work at all.
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 insure that all of the new rules in that package will work as
they should.
Loren
