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spamassassin package

/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin should support auto-updating 3rd party rulesets

Bug #1366983 reported by Lenny Gottesman
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Bug Description

Wishlist item.

I was hoping to add the Sought ruleset to spamassassin (https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SoughtRules), and I couldn't find an elegant way to integrate it with the packaged daily cronjob. It would be very easy to implement, however, and I hope you'd consider it.

What I'm picturing is replacing the following line in /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin:
su - debian-spamd -c "sa-update --gpghomedir /var/lib/spamassassin/sa-update-keys"

With something like this:
su - debian-spamd -c "sa-update --gpghomedir /var/lib/spamassassin/sa-update-keys --channelfile /etc/spamassassin/sa-update-channels"

And then have the package /etc/spamassassin/sa-update-channels file contain only "updates.spamassassin.org", but let end users add to this file if they wish.

Any interest in implementing this?

Thanks,
Lenny

Revision history for this message
Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

On the basis of your report this sounds like a great idea, but I am not familiar with spamassassin details.

It sounds like this is a feature that would apply to Debian too. Since the spamassassin packaging in Ubuntu is derived from Debian's, it would be best to check if the bug applies to Debian also, and report it there if appropriate.

Changed in spamassassin (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
tags: added: needs-upstream-report
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