Matt Kettler wrote: > Mike Schrauder wrote: > >I have sa 2.63 on debian woody using the filter account to protect > >... > >This was about 2 years ago and it has been working VERY well. Now some > >more spam is getting through and I have two questions. > >1. how scary for a novice would it be to apt-get upgrade spammassassin > >to 3.0.2-1 and expect everything to keep on working?
On Debian if you upgrade the Berkeley DB libraries on the system you will need to upgrade the SA bayes databases using the db4.2_upgrade upgrade command in the db4.2-util package. Change the 4.2 in that name to the exact version you are moving to after a Berkeley DB upgrade. The BDB file format upgrade has always worked easily for me. This is really outside spamassasin and is controlled by the underlying system perl in use. If you don't change the perl BDB libraries then SA won't change BDB formats either. But better knowing this than searching for it later. But don't fear it. It is not a serious problem. I would definitely upgrade to SpamAssassin 3.x. > 3.x has some configuration option changes, which are documented in the > upgrade file: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.0/UPGRADE Good stuff in the UPGRADE file. The only real thing I remember needing to change here, there may have been others, it was quite a while ago, was the -P option going away. But really everything worked well and any problems were very minor. One thing I did was to remove all of the custom rule processing I had added with the 2.6x series and started out fresh with only the stock 3.x rules. Then tweaked up the scores such as increasing the bayes score points. Almost all of the additional rules I had installed into 2.x are now standard in 3.x. So things got quite a bit simpler. Bob