Handling unwanted email

[John Hupp]

On 7/17/2015 3:16 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> 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.

Regarding ClamAV auto-update, I install ClamAV and ClamTk (GUI), then 
open /etc/crontab and add:
         20 */2 * * *     root    /usr/bin/freshclam
This updates virus definitions every other hour.

(I use ClamTk to manually scan a file or directory.)