Sharma, Ashish wrote:
I have SpamAssassin(3.3.1) deployed on production servers.
The automatic update is disabled there.
How did you install SA? I don't know of any packages that will run
sa-update automatically, and I'm sure the tarball doesn't include any
automatic rule updates anywhere either.
I want to know what is the best approach for ruleset updates:
1. sa-update
For SA 3.3.x, this is really the ONLY way to get updated rulesets. The
source tarball no longer includes the rules at all.
2. Manual update
If you really desperately *want* to reimplement all or most of
sa-update, you can.
I favor manual update as I want to keep a local list of rule set updates going
to my production and if anything goes bad I can backtrack.
Please post relevant references for doing manual ruleset update on
SpamAssassin(3.3.1).
I think you're asking the question you really want to ask in the wrong
way; can you expand on what you're trying to control? There's no
reason you can't run sa-update manually on your own schedule; however
keep in mind it has no rollback capability so if you really want to do
that you'll have to set up something yourself. You can also use a
combination of automated updates and manual updates; for instance, I
have Justin Mason's SOUGHT rules automatically updated daily, but the
other rulesets are only updated by a manual call to sa-update.
FWIW, with changes in the official ruleset publishing and
score-generation process, it may be wise to *enable* automatic updates
on at least the core, official ruleset, so that bugfixes and updates to
the core rules go live for you while they're still relevant.
-kgd
