[Gllug] [OT] Asking to be spammed?

[Paul Cupis]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> Nix wrote:
> >On 21 Dec 2006, Richard Jones outgrape:
> >>What is the latest thinking on spam filtering?  My solution (using
> >>SpamAssassin) is becoming increasingly slow and ineffective, and I'd
> >>like to hear what other people are doing.
> >
> >If you're not running sa-update periodically, do.
> 
> I wasn't previously aware of this and have just read the man page and 
> then run it.  It creates a new directory called "/var/lib/spamassassin" 
> and then creates a directory in it called 3.001007, into which it puts 
> the stuff which it downloads.
> 
> Given that this is a completely new location, do I have to do anything 
> further to get SA to start using this new information?  The man page 
> doesn't say.

The default configuration should search this location for additional
rules.

You could confirm by running `grep LOCAL_STATE_DIR
/usr/bin/spamassassin` for example.

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