[Mimedefang] Additional Spamassassin Rules

[Rich West]

David, yes, if you place them in /usr/share/spamassassin, you risk that 
they will be blown away during any upgrades..

I had placed mine in /etc/mail/spamassassin, as per a bunch of posts on 
various web pages and list archives.  I didn't finda true cookbook (how 
to), though..

After placing mine in /etc/mail/spamassassin with appropriate names, I 
looked around supidly and felt that there had to be something else to 
get it to work.  I was unaware of the "md-mx-ctrl reread" 
functionality.  So, I was restarted mimedefang all together.  I didn't 
see anything get hit by the new rules, hence my posting.

Since I did the installation of the new rules, I have been running 
mimedefang + spamassassin as well as using my local .procmailrc file to 
filter through spamc.  I know, this is redundant, but I wanted to see if 
one scored differently than the other.

After about a day I had a good solid set of spam messages (about 60) 
that weren't bounced but flagged (properly) as spam.  I saw that, over 
time, some of the messages were showing the new rules in the 
spamassassin report.  I guess some just weren't tickling those rules. :)

Thanks for the quick responses!

-Rich

> "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
>
>>> Actually, the SpamAssassin docs state that you *shouldn't* drop
>>>
>>>> local rules in /usr/share/spamassassin, since they will be
>>>> removed when upgrading SpamAssassin (yes, I learned the hard
>>>> way .
>>>
>>
>> Not if you number them 70_* or higher, I believe.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David.
>
>
> Well, my /usr/share/spamassassin/ was wiped out, so it's safer to
> keep local rules in /etc/mail/spamassassin/.  I grab a number of
> SpamAssassin rule files which are named according to their function
> and not with numbers, for example:
>    http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm
>    http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/bogus-virus-warnings.cf
> The files from these sites should definitely go into
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/.