On 20-01-17 19:46, David Jones wrote: >> From: Kevin Golding <k...@caomhin.org> >> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:59 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: No rule updates since 1/1/17 > >> On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:26:01 -0000, Bill Keenan >> <developerli...@wjkeenan.org> wrote: > >>> What is the fix needed so /usr/bin/sa-update starts getting updates? I >>> too have not received an update from updates.spamassassin.org >>> <http://updates.spamassassin.org/> since 1-Jan-17. >>> >>> Besides updates.spamassassin.org <http://updates.spamassassin.org/>, >>> what other rule sets are commonly used? Hundreds of spam messages are >>> getting through with only updates.spamassassin.org >>> <http://updates.spamassassin.org/> rules. > >> This seems like a good time to mention >> https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck > >> If more people can contribute, even just a small corpora of mail, then >> updates will be published more frequently. At the moment a very small >> number of people provide data, meaning there is very little margin for >> error. > > I would like to help with the nightly masscheck but I don't have the > resources to manually check ham and spam. This also gets into the > grey area of how people define spam. I also have a very good MTA > setup with RBLs and DNS checks that block most of the spam before > it reaches SA in MailScanner. My SA only has to block a very small > percentage of my definition of spam so I am not sure how helpful > my mail filtering platform can be even though it's very accurate. > > Dave >
I think I can say the same about my platform, but since this issue keeps popping up I just applied for an account just to find out if my contribution could help. I can't speculate so I'm just gonna try if it helps :) Kind regards, Tom
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