https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8119
Bill Cole <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #6 from Bill Cole <[email protected]> --- Fixed the documentation gap: Index: sa-update.raw =================================================================== --- sa-update.raw (revision 1907762) +++ sa-update.raw (working copy) @@ -2056,6 +2056,19 @@ I<updates.spamassassin.org>, which has updated rules since the previous release. +NOTE: channel names are domain names, but DO NOT typically have any DNS +records other than (maybe) NS records. There is a tree of records below that +name which denote the SpamAssassin version and resolve that name to the +version number of the latest rules, e.g. to find the latest update +version number for SpamAssassin v4.0.0: + + $ host -t txt 0.0.4.updates.spamassassin.org + 0.0.4.updates.spamassassin.org is an alias for 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org. + 3.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org descriptive text "1907730" + +That also illuminates the fact that the current ruleset is supposed to be +backward-compatible to v3.3.3. + Update archives are verified using GPG signatures by default. If GPG is disabled (not recommended), file integrity is checked with SHA512 or SHA256 checksums. Committed in r1907763 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
