Re: Lots of FN because of VALIDITY* rules

On 2024-06-03 at 01:26:31 UTC-0400 (Mon, 3 Jun 2024 07:26:31 +0200)
postgarage Graz IT <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> Now for my questions:
> *) as is stated in active.list it should not be edited. What's the 
> correct place to add the new rules to activate them? local.cf?

Yes. In your local version of local.cf, typically in 
/etc/mail/spamassassin. This is as documented. Run "perldoc 
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" for the core configuration documentation.

Note that active.list is part of the rule management toolkit and IS NOT 
part of normal operations. It is part of the ruleset-building system 
that we use to create the daily update packages. In theory anyone could 
use that system to maintain rules and scores locally based on local 
data, as we do to produce daily updates, but I do not believe that 
anyone (literally *anyone*) other than the ASF does that.

> *) If I understand it correctly
> /var/lib/spamassassin/4.000000/updates_spamassassin_org/ is updated by 
> the SA update mechanism but it's the Linux distribution's 
> responsibility to update /var/lib/spamassassin?

I'm not 100% clear on what that question means, perhaps because Debian 
does something different in /var/lib/spamassassin. The standard 
sa-update program will create versioned subdirectories under 
/var/lib/spamassassin/ as needed and channel subdirectories inside of 
them.


> In that case should I fill a Debian bug? Or should the SA updates also 
> include the file active.list?

SA updates include the active rules list in the form of the 72.active.cf 
file. The active.list file is not part of normal operations.


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