just tried typing in sa-update and it said it wasn't a valid command, I downloaded some rules yesterday for the stock spam and that worked great.
will my SpamAssassin database get erased upon upgrade to the new version? Thanks, Dmitri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: maint question > Dmitri wrote: > > Platform: fedora core 4 > > spamd version: 3.0.6 > > spamd invoked: runs as a service > > > > Greetings, > > Spamasassin is a great product and has been very useful to us. However I > > would like to ask what maintenance should/can be done to have spamd work > > more effectively (i.e. filter out more spam). Currently my users get > > between 5-15 spam messages per day. I spend my time extracting the spam > > mail out of their mailboxes and then doing spamassassin -r on those > > messages. Is there anything else I can and should do? > > > > My last question is about the new version 3.1.7, does it filter and > > catch spam better then 3.0.6. Is it stable yet? > > Yes, you should definitely upgrade to 3.1.7. Then run sa-update to get the latest rules. Also > consider getting some SARE rules via sa-update: > > http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt > > Also be sure that you are running with network tests.
