Title: RE: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows

All three of you should add them to the www.exit0.us wiki!!

And also, bring me a shrubery!

--Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:25 AM
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Automatically Updating Rules on Windows
>
>
> I use SpamAssassin on Windows with no Perl/CYGWIN environment
> (via MDaemon)
> which means I can't use RDJ, so I found and customised a
> reasonably advanced
> batch file which automatically checks for newer versions of
> the SA rules I
> want, and downloads them if there are new versions available
> for download -
> complete with logging and optional email reports. Works very
> well for me -
> I'd be happy to make it available if anyone was interested...
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
>
>
> "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Heh, I built my own bash script for updating. It is rude, crude, and
> > effective. If somebody develops an irrational ideological
> repulsion to
> > RDJ I can share it. I'd recommend RDJ. I'm just a hard core
> reactionary
> > who developed her script about the time RDJ was developed. I stopped
> > when it was "enough for me". RDJ kept developing.
> >
> > {^_-}
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bret Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Thanks to a recent post with a sample of how to download
> rules in Perl,
> > I managed to create a nice perl-based updating tool for
> SARE rules. Why?
> > Because for a lot of Windows admins, setting up a CYGWIN
> environment for
> > RulesDuJour was daunting.
> >
> > I had a previous example of a Windows-based tool, but it
> required a lot
> > of setup work. We needed a simple, easy-to-use tool for
> this. So, here
> > it is.
> >
> > This tool requires creating a working directory for downloading the
> > rules, setting some configuration information at the top of
> the script,
> > and scheduling the batch file. There's a readme file
> included with some
> > minimal information about the process.
> >
> > Actually, since some of our list members prefer I don't attach this
> > stuff, you can get it from my mail tools page at
> > http://webmail.wcg.org/~support or directly
> > http://webmail.wcg.org/~support/RulesUpdater.zip.
> > I'd consider this pre-release as I've only done minimal
> testing to make
> > sure it works as I expect it to. But I probably won't do
> any more work
> > on it unless someone else suggests it needs fixing or
> enhancement. So,
> > feel free to try it out...
> >
> > And as usual, YMMV.
> >
> > Bret
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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