Re: Latest time a masscheck must be submitted?

[email protected] Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:02:37 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
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On 11/18/25 12:26 PM, Tobi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> in describtion for masscheck is stated
> 
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>> If your upload looks good, then you're probably ready to automate
> nightly checks. Configure automasscheck to run as a cron job as your
> non-root user at or after 9AM UTC. (After weekly-versions.txt /
> nightly-versions.txt gets updated in rsync.spamassassin.org::corpus .
> If you run it earlier it will break things. )
> 
> so "at or after 9AM UTC". But how "big" is the "after"? By when is the
> latest time of the day the masscheck submission must occur?
>
On masscheck server cronjobs run at ~8:28 UTC and ~2:23 UTC, I think you should be able to submit your data before 2:23 UTC.

  Giovanni 
> Background: I need to move my server rack where the masscheck box runs
> into my office. As this is a quite loud box I would like to make my
> submission outside office-hours. The box is triggered via a "plug the
> power" via network. Usually it takes up to 2-3 hours for the masscheck
> to deal with my corpus. So the question would be: is a masscheck in
> the evening, I'd say after 4PM UTC still possible? And is there an
> exact closing time for masschecks of the day?
> 
> Have a good one
> 
> tobi

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