-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We have had SpamAssassin running for sometime. Until yesterday, we were currently running 3.1.0 and were (and still are) using the RulesDuJour script to pull updated SARE rulesets as well.
After updating to SpamAssassin 3.1.3 yesterday, and browsing through the Wiki site some more, I came across sa-update. I ran sa-update and it created /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003/ with the updates_spamassassin_org channel information. There are newer versions of most of the SA-include rulesets there compared to what was in our /etc/mail/spamassassin directory. After reading through the mailing list postings of the last month or so dealing with sa-update, I realized we also have a /usr/share/spamassassin directory which now contains the SA_rulesets from 3.1.3. So I have 3 directories with SA-included rulesets /etc/mail/spamassin - 3.1.0 rules from Dec 2005 /usr/share/spamassassin - 3.1.3 rules dated Jun 5 2006 /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003/... - update 407357 to 3.1.3 rules When I run 'spamassassin -LD --lint', I see it try to load the following types of files from the following locations: config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules pre files config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003" for sys rules pre files config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003" for default rules dir config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir In /etc/mail/spamassassin, any rules we have added or score adjustments have been made in either local.cf or in *.cf files we have created. Questions: 1) Are the SA-included ##_<string>.cf files needed in all 3 locations or can the 'older' files in /etc/mail/spamassassin and /usr/share/spamassassin be removed? 2) Do the rulesets in the multiple files get merged or does only the first/last copy of the same name get used? To test the behavior wrt Q2, I created a dave.cf file in both /etc/mail/spamassassin and /var/lib/spamassassin/... I created a rule that matched on my email address. The rules were named DGOLDSMITH1 (/etc/mail/spamassassin) and DGOLDSMITH2 (var/lib/spamassassin/...) so they would be unique. After restarting SA, and running some messages through, only to DGOLDSMITH1 rule is getting matched. Thanks, Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3rc2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEhZDx417vU8/9QfkRAgVmAJ9uN37TfDMPfI7p9XxsFStAyAp3SACcDATA XyLs06IEGHmaBDobh3mU1rM= =xSjj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
