Re: Question about sa-updates

David B Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 22 Jun 2024, Paul Schmehl wrote:

>       On Jun 22, 2024, at 12:28 AM, Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 6/21/2024 8:56 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>       I scratched my head, then looked up the man page for sa-update on the web. Sure enough, that’s where the rules
>       go. Is that where my local.cf file should be located? Right now it’s in /etc/mail/spamassassin. There’s a default
>       local.cf file in /var/lib/…..
> 
> 
> /var/lib/spamassassin is where channels put their rules. /etc/mail/spamassassin is where the host admin puts her
> customizations. I like to use separate files for different policies, named after each effect I'm trying to get. SA will load
> anything there with a .cf extension.
> 
> It’s not clear to me from your answer. Does SA read rules in both places? Or only in /etc/mail/spamassassin/? 
>

Reading the "man" page documentation for spamassassin, it lists several 
different directories that SA looks for its config files in and the order that 
it reads them from.

The possible directories are distro and version specific so you need to read the 
docs for your specific instance.


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