Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > > I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin > available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin > 3.0.3-2sarge1". > > As you can imagine, having not done an update of the rules for a very > long time, it's pretty useless these days, so i was wondering how > "sa-update" worked. > > BUT... the "sa-update" command doesn't seem to exist on my system... any > ideas? > sa-update exists in 3.1.0 and newer. The current version of SpamAssassin is 3.1.8.
One thing to remember is that the debian stable repositories are just that. Stable. They do not have the latest versions of everything, and adopt new versions slowly and only after reliablilty is proven.