[Gllug] SpamAssassin falling behind

[Stephen Harker]

John Winters wrote:
> When I first installed SpamAssassin it seemed to be pretty good at picking
> up all my spam without any false positives.  As time has gone on though it
> seems to have fallen behind.  I now get a significant percentage of spam
> slipping under SA's guard (especially stock tips).
> 
> Thunderbird is shit-hot and picks up everything, AFAICS pretty much
> infallibly, but SA seems to have developed mould or something.
> 
> Is there anything I need to do to SA on a regular basis to keep it up to
> speed?
> 
> The platform is Debian Sarge, fully patched up to date.

A fully patched and up to date sarge install of spamassassin is over a 
year old. Take a look at upgrading spamassassin from Debian volatile or 
backports and see if that helps.

http://volatile.debian.net/

http://www.backports.org/

Stephen
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