Thank you all for answering me. I found one link that may be very interesting (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets)
I first should mention, I am a new SUBSCRIBER, not a new user to SA. I have been using it for a couple of years. Over that period I have created thousands of LOCAL_ rules (if I go and grep on describe or score in /etc/mail/spamassassin.... :-). If you only saw my MISSPELLES. The bad thing I was not writing it professionally, as I used \d+ for example, or too many | inside one rule. In short, they work, but not polished. What I found that creating own rules can be so competitive with a new spam coming in. As you know spam messages change every minute or so. What I am trying to achieve? Free up my time. There are few things I've thought about. I have been collecting spam (before discarding) for almost a month. Wrote a little program to rewrite LOCAL_ rules that were found and will not recreate the ones that were not caught. And I am about to redo all. Next, I thought if there is a place for automatic uploading rules, then may be notifying me and I would reload SA. That is what I asked in my email. It is bad that I want to free up my time by using somebody else's rules. Sorry, but may be someone shares. I also have NOT used Bayes. Don't know how safe it is. Would I just submit a spam message and I don't have to anything else, or ham the same way? Not sure. Thank you again. Let me know what you think. Irina Kalachnikova Systems Programmer NetAccess Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Irina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:40 PM Subject: Re: A question > Irina wrote: > > Hello at SA list. > > > > I am a new subscriber - don't get angry if I did something wrong :-) > > > > > > 1. Is there any place and/or are there any tools that are available > > for updating SA rules automatically (on FreeBSD)? > > http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour > > Note: this is intended to update add-on rulesets. > > The only way to update the standard rules is to install the new version of SA. > To understand why you can't upgrade the standard rules without upgrading SA read: > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VirusScannerTypeUpdates > > Although SA 3.0 and higher use a perceptron instead of a genetic algorithm to > tally scores, the overall process is much the same and still takes about the > same amount of time because the mass-check runs take a long time to run. > > > > > 2. What can I use to check on SA configuration from a Perl program > > (spamassassin --lint)? > > Stolen straight from the spamassassin code: > > # create the tester factory > my $spamtest = new Mail::SpamAssassin( > { > rules_filename => $opt{'configpath'}, > site_rules_filename => $opt{'siteconfigpath'}, > userprefs_filename => $opt{'prefspath'}, > local_tests_only => $opt{'local'}, > debug => defined( $opt{'debug-level'} ), > dont_copy_prefs => ( $opt{'create-prefs'} ? 0 : 1 ), > PREFIX => $PREFIX, > DEF_RULES_DIR => $DEF_RULES_DIR, > LOCAL_RULES_DIR => $LOCAL_RULES_DIR, > } > ); > > <snip, lots of code> > > if ( $opt{'lint'} ) { > $spamtest->debug_diagnostics(); > my $res = $spamtest->lint_rules(); > warn "lint: $res issues detected. please rerun with debug enabled for more > information.\n" if ($res); > exit $res ? 1: 0; > } >
