[Mimedefang] SA scores

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:24 AM -0700 Philip Goisman 
<goisman at physics.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Are you now saying mimedefang uses both /var/lib/spamassassin and
> /usr/share/spamassassin?  If mimedefang only uses /usr/share/spamassassin,
> what's the point in putting the updates in /var/lib/spamassassin unless
> you want to run spamassassin from procmail?

See the FAQ here:

<http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates>

Traditionally /usr is treated as read-only (it might be mounted that way) 
and /var is used for stuff that changes from day to day (such as anti-virus 
and anti-spam data files). An SA update might only affect a few rules 
within a file in the main rules directory, and you wouldn't want it 
overwriting that file and eliminating all the rules that weren't updated.