Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:58:19AM -0700, Richard wrote:
>>> rules_du_jour was done when sa-update did not exists
>> are you implying that sa-update replaces rules-du-jour?
>
> That depends on what you mean by "replaces".
>
>> i though sa-update updates the SA distro's bundled rules, but NOT any
>> additional SARE rules that require rules du jour.
>
> sa-update is a generic tool that lets users download "channels" (ie:
bundles
> of rules/plugins) from anywhere that decides to publish them (requires a
> certain setup, etc.) At the moment, the only published channel that
I know
> of is updates.spamassassin.org. (all this is in
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates btw)
>
> There's nothing stoping the SARE folks from publishing a single or a
> bunch of channels and getting rid of RDJ in favor of sa-update if they
> wanted to... There are some benefits either way I suppose, and I'm
biased
> towards sa-update of course. :|
>
This all going down a path I started last night after Theo's replies on
Re: updates.spamassassin.org.cf overrides local.cf? I've been reading
the Wiki throughout this morning.
With regards to such things as SARE, it would be easy enough for me to
setup RDJ on a server, downloading the just the rule sets I want and
then publish them to a channel of my own, running sa-update on my
servers to pull updates when available correct?
Seems like a lot of work, but as others write more rules and as rules be
come available from differing sources, this would be a very nice way to
update only specific sets of rules that I want. The upside is that I
would not have to do anything custom on my SA installs other than add
channels to sa-update.
Going further...
I could see SARE rules offered on many channels though some
reorganization may be required. Channels such as post25, pre30, header,
body, etc. There are too many rules to have a channel for each but
possibly sets of popular rules could be collected together.
I could also see breaking my own local rules into individual *.cf files.
I like the idea of moving all transient rules such as SARE and
TLS.cf(our local rules) into a common dir structure and location.
/var/lib/spamassassin/$VER/updates.sare-fraud.rulesemporium.com
/var/lib/spamassassin/$VER/updates.sare-header.rulesemporium.com
/var/lib/spamassassin/$VER/updates.tls.local
/var/lib/spamassassin/$VER/updates.someOtherRulesHouse.com
This would leave /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin containing only the
local site specific .pre files and local.cf which set required options
for my specific installation.
Would all this be a correct interpretation on my part?
DAve
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