Handling unwanted email

[Petter Adsen]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:10:13 -0700
Noah <noah-list at enabled.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> response in line below.
> 
> On 7/16/15 2:12 AM, compdoc wrote:
> >> Might you show me how you are auto-updating spamassassin and clamav rules?
> >
> >
> > Clamav and spamassassin are automatically updated, and in the usual ways. (I
> > think with cron)
> 
> 
> are you talking about apt-get here or another way?  please explain what 
> you are doing from the cron?

AFAIK, at least clamav auto-updates, as long as the package
'clamav-freshclam' is installed. I believe it sets up a cron job to do
the actual update, you don't need to do anything.

I suspect spamassassin works in a similar fashion.

> > You might want to install the SME Server distro, or any other distro that
> > includes them, and poke at it to see how it's done.
> 
> will check it out.  Really the Issue is more on the spamassassin side - 
> I am still getting lots of spam and trying to figure out what I can do 
> to reduce that.

Read the spamassassin documentation, maybe? I'm sure it contains useful
tips on that.

Petter

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