Topic: sme-spamassassin.tgz

[Ed Form]

Jay wrote:
>
> one thing I forgot to ask;
>
> does spamassasin have a mechanism to update its own rule base
> ? or will i have to watch for updates ?

Down at the bottom of the Server manager panel is a self-learning setting but I don't actually know whether it works. There is also a setting to have the system check with RBL lists on the internet. I'd imagine that these are kept well up to date.

Glad things are flying

Ed Form

[Brian Read]

The button at the bottom, refers to "auto-learning" which enables the training of the bayes database.  The bayes db will not "kick in" until a minimum of 200 spam and 200 ham have been seen.

Rules are an integral part of the package, so the whole package has to be updated to get any new rules.

When a new release is done, you can download the rh7.2 RPM from the spamassassin web site and install it on your SME server with no real problems.  I have done it a few times.

2.53 is the current latest version.

cheers


Brian

[Marcos Migliorini]

I want to know how to delete an entry defined in the wbl. In my server-panel I see "There are no WBL entries defined" but I already programed this black block list. In etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf I can see this entry.... is possible to check the entries through the server panel?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Marcos

[Ed Form]

Marcos Migliorini wrote:
>
> I want to know how to delete an entry defined in the wbl. In
> my server-panel I see "There are no WBL entries defined" but
> I already programed this black block list. In
> etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf I can see this entry.... is
> possible to check the entries through the server panel?

I've had several situations in which the Spamassassin control panel in Server Manager didn't seem to work correctly. The first one put itself right when I did SME5.6 update2. The last one was a red herring - when I went and looked at the control file it actually had a list bt it didn't show in the Server Manager panel. then I added another entry and up popped the lists. Been perfect ever since.

No idea what was wrong, just letting you know that the CP area is a bit hit and miss.

Ed Form

[Marcos Migliorini]

Ed,

Thanks for your respond. When you see in your server panel the BWL list, you have the posibility to delete an entry? , or you simply edit the local.cf file?

[Ed Form]

Marcos Migliorini wrote:
>
> Thanks for your respond. When you see in your server panel
> the BWL list, you have the posibility to delete an entry? ,
> or you simply edit the local.cf file?

The table has modify and remove buttons.

Ed Form

[Michiel]

To automatically update SpamAssassin, I'm testing the following concept: The latest version of SA can also be found on CPAN, so I run a weekly cronjob to check if there is a newer version. If so, it is automatically downloaded and installed. So far it seems to work, but the jury is still out.

The drawback is that it requires the development tools and CPAN to be configured on your system.

So this is what I did:
1/ Downloaded and installed the development tools from http://lordsfam.net/downloads/production/dev-tools/

2/ Installed ncftp from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ncftp-3.1.3-6.i386.rpm

3/ Configured CPAN (from the command line: perl -MCPAN -e shell and accepted all defaults).

4/ Put the following script in /etc/cron.weekly:
#!/bin/bash
sa-update() {
   echo o conf prerequisites_policy follow
   echo install Mail::SpamAssassin
   echo exit
}
sa-update | perl -MCPAN -e shell 2> /dev/null

That's all. Anyone care to comment?

Michiel

[Alejandro Lengua]

Does anyone know where to get...
Any sample -SPAM messages to try?

[Brian Read]

try here:

http://SpamAssassin.org/publiccorpus/

Cheers

Brian

[Darrell Lewis]

I've got spamassassin up and running, and I'd like to see which RBL's it's using - and I can't find where to sheck which RBL's are being used.

Where do I look?Brian  Read wrote:

[Brian Read]

Try

spamasssasin -D --lint

and it'll tell you (along with a lot of other stuff)

cheers

Brian