I've installed, spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.3.1-r905461 running on Perl version 5.10.0
Starting with a fresh install, i.e. no Updates ... ls -al /usr/local/var/spamassassin/Updates (empty) Attempts to pull rules from "updates.spamassassin.org", (1), & "sought.rules.yerp.org", (2), channels FAIL w/ "dns: query fails: ... NXDOMAIN". Using channels @ "*.sare.sa-update.dostech.net", (3), works fine -- dns query works, as does update install. (1) sa-update -D -v --channel updates.spamassassin.org --gpgkey 5244EC45 --gpghomedir /root/.gnupg ... Feb 12 09:24:27.388 [31615] dbg: channel: attempting channel updates.spamassassin.org ... Feb 12 09:24:37.457 [31615] dbg: dns: query failed: 1.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org => NXDOMAIN Feb 12 09:24:47.501 [31615] dbg: channel: no updates available, skipping channel Feb 12 09:24:47.502 [31615] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 1 Update finished, no fresh updates were available (2) sa-update -D -v --channel sought.rules.yerp.org --gpgkey 6C6191E3 --gpghomedir /root/.gnupg ... Feb 12 09:23:26.632 [31608] dbg: channel: attempting channel sought.rules.yerp.org ... Feb 12 09:23:36.662 [31608] dbg: dns: query failed: 1.3.3.sought.rules.yerp.org => NXDOMAIN Feb 12 09:23:46.699 [31608] dbg: channel: no updates available, skipping channel Feb 12 09:23:46.700 [31608] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 1 Update finished, no fresh updates were available (3) sa-update -D -v --channel 70_sare_obfu.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net --gpgkey 856AA88A --gpghomedir /root/.gnupg ... Feb 12 09:20:49.127 [31596] dbg: channel: attempting channel 70_sare_obfu.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net ... Feb 12 09:20:59.162 [31596] dbg: dns: 1.3.3.70_sare_obfu.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net => 200706050800, parsed as 200706050800 Update available for channel 70_sare_obfu.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net ... Feb 12 09:21:10.418 [31596] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 0 Update was available, and was downloaded and installed successfully ls -al /usr/local/var/spamassassin/Updates/3.003001/70_sare_obfu_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 2010-02-12 09:21 /usr/local/var/spamassassin/Updates/3.003001/70_sare_obfu_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net.cf /usr/local/var/spamassassin/Updates/3.003001/70_sare_obfu_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net: total 168 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-12 09:21 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-02-12 09:21 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158982 2010-02-12 09:21 200706050800.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 2010-02-12 09:21 MIRRORED.BY What's needed to get default and JMASON's updates/channels working? Thanks, BenDJ