Eugene Smiley on 21 Nov 2004 22:27:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Spamassassin 3.0.1


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Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:06:06PM -0500, Eugene Smiley said:
>
>>I'm just curious if anyone has tried out Spamassassin 3.0.1 yet. I
>>just saw that the devs have added plugins to it to check SPF and
>>HashCash headers.
>
>
> I have been using SA3 since it released.  3.0.1 has much better
> memory management than 3.0.0, but I am still seeing SIGCHILD
> issues.  Not sure if it's what you would call 'stable' yet, but it
> works for me.

Well, all I have to say is, "WOW." Since updating to 3.0.1, SPAM
scores have gone way up. The URI rules are a major source of this.
I've even seen some hits against the SPF rules already.

> And also bayes db format - see the UPGRADE instructions for
> details, but basically, if you want to retain all of your bayes
> info, you have to dump it out and add it back in.  Blech.

Not too worried about the bayes rules. They'll re-adjust over time
considering that this is in a system wide setup (using amavisd-new).
Annoying yes, but all in the name of PROGRESS. ;)

> Trivial.  Edit /etc/apt/sources.list, add a line for unstable.
> apt-get update; apt-get install spamassassin.  Edit
> /etc/apt/sources.list, remove line for unstable.  apt-get update.
>
> Or wait a week or so - the rc bugs are closed, and it will move
> into testing relatively shortly.

Well, I couldn't wait. I use synaptic, and I was impatient and just
started twiddling with the repositories and basically did what you
sugessted.

Thanks for the feedback.


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