On October 13, 2006 06:42 am, Bart Veltman wrote: > Currently I am using spamassassin version 3.0.3 on a Debian 3.1 sarge > (stable release) linux system. According to Debian this version is > stable but is more than a year old. Which version should I use, or must > I use, to maintain a stable environment? Still go on with version 3.0.3 > or upgrade to a newer version?
You can also get newer versions of spamassassin from debian-volatile, which maintains packages that update often (such as spamassassin, antivirus, etc). You would need to add the following to your sources.list (although you'll probably want a closer mirror http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-volatile/volatile-mirrors): deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian-volatile stable/volatile-sloppy main deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian-volatile stable/volatile-sloppy main I definitely recommend that you upgrade your spamassassin. The version currently in volatile is 3.1.5. I can't comment as to the differences between using backports, as others have suggested, or volatile. You'll have to research that yourself. If you use volatile, you won't need to update your preferences file, since there is a very small subset of packages in that repository. -- Take care, Chris
