I am wondering about updating the version of Spam Assassin on my CentOS 5 mail server. The current version, 3.3.1-4.el5 (stock RHEL version), has been 'leaking' recently. I suspect I need some newer match rules to detect some of the newer flavors of spam. I see that in rpmforge's extras repo is version 3.3.2-4.el5.rfx -- is this version worth installing? Are there even newer versions either available for CentOS 5 (or buildable under CentOS 5)? Or is there a collection of match rules available for the newer flavors of spam than can just be dropped into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf?
I am not ready just yet to migrate my server to CentOS 6 (but that is something I'll probably do at some point).
I have these available:
http://mirrors.axint.net/repos/axis/x86_64/spamassassin-3.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm http://mirrors.axint.net/repos/axis-source/spamassassin-3.4.0-1.src.rpm
Chris
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I am wondering about updating the version of Spam Assassin on my CentOS 5 mail server. The current version, 3.3.1-4.el5 (stock RHEL version), has been 'leaking' recently. I suspect I need some newer match rules to detect some of the newer flavors of spam. I see that in rpmforge's extras repo is version 3.3.2-4.el5.rfx -- is this version worth installing? Are there even newer versions either available for CentOS 5 (or buildable under CentOS 5)? Or is there a collection of match rules available for the newer flavors of spam than can just be dropped into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf?
I am not ready just yet to migrate my server to CentOS 6 (but that is something I'll probably do at some point).
-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
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At Sun, 15 Feb 2015 07:47:29 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I have these available:
http://mirrors.axint.net/repos/axis/x86_64/spamassassin-3.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm http://mirrors.axint.net/repos/axis-source/spamassassin-3.4.0-1.src.rpm
Thanks, I'll have a look. Is this a repo and is there repo metadata files available (eg something I can drop into /etc/yum.repos.d/)?
Chris
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I am wondering about updating the version of Spam Assassin on my CentOS 5 mail server. The current version, 3.3.1-4.el5 (stock RHEL version), has been 'leaking' recently. I suspect I need some newer match rules to detect some of the newer flavors of spam. I see that in rpmforge's extras repo is version 3.3.2-4.el5.rfx -- is this version worth installing? Are there even newer versions either available for CentOS 5 (or buildable under CentOS 5)? Or is there a collection of match rules available for the newer flavors of spam than can just be dropped into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf?
I am not ready just yet to migrate my server to CentOS 6 (but that is something I'll probably do at some point).
-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Before you upgrade SA you may want to make certain that your install is current on the rules updates, which are released on a fairly regular basis.
You can do an "sa-update --checkonly -v" to see if you are current.
There's generally a cron job in /etc/cron.d that checks for updates daily, but if it's not running for some reason your ruleset will be out of date.
The 3.4 release will be better, but I found that 3.3.1, with some personalized tweaks, was still very good.
- Richard
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Date: Sunday, February 15, 2015 11:04:51 -0500 From: Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Updated Spam Assassin for CentOS 5...
At Sun, 15 Feb 2015 07:47:29 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I have these available:
http://mirrors.axint.net/repos/axis/x86_64/spamassassin-3.4.0-1.x 86_64.rpm http://mirrors.axint.net/repos/axis-source/spamassassin-3.4.0-1.s rc.rpm
Thanks, I'll have a look. Is this a repo and is there repo metadata files available (eg something I can drop into /etc/yum.repos.d/)?
Chris
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I am wondering about updating the version of Spam Assassin on my CentOS 5 mail server. The current version, 3.3.1-4.el5 (stock RHEL version), has been 'leaking' recently. I suspect I need some newer match rules to detect some of the newer flavors of spam. I see that in rpmforge's extras repo is version 3.3.2-4.el5.rfx -- is this version worth installing? Are there even newer versions either available for CentOS 5 (or buildable under CentOS 5)? Or is there a collection of match rules available for the newer flavors of spam than can just be dropped into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf?
I am not ready just yet to migrate my server to CentOS 6 (but that is something I'll probably do at some point).
-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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