Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Mark Crean <mcrean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:

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>>Is there a way to make an rpm out of this - I'd like to keep the rpm
>> database happy.
>
>Not that I know of, because the CPAN install is totally automated.
>On the other hand, there is no reason to keep rpm aware of the
>change if you never install with rpm in the first place.

Dunno if this will help anyone:

First, it's easy to upgrade spamassassin using rpm. Download the source 
tar.gz for the latest version (2.63), then use the spec file from the 
2.60 src.rpm on SuSE ftp (or the original one on the install disks) and 
alter a few things, like the version name. Building against this spec 
file produces the two rpms (spamassassin 2.63 and perl-spamassassin 2.63).

Second, to improve the spam-catching rate, I'd had to install a bunch of 
custom rules.cf files from the spamassassin sites. It doesn't take 
spammers long to work out ways round the current version of 
spamassassin, and then the hit rate starts to go down.

Some of the third-party rule sets are very effective at dealing with the 
latest tricks. With the custom rules and a few of my own, my hit rate is 
now up there at nearly 100% again. I've never used razor because the 
addition of custom rules seems to have plugged the gap.

Never had a problem with bayes db here. It's always worked.

Just my 2 cents.

:)

Fish