Improving the effectiveness and accuracy of SpamAssassin updating its rules automatically on Debian
One can improve the default effectiveness and accuracy of SpamAssassin on Debian systems by automatically updating its rules from official channel and from suggested channel. This tutorial will show how to update the rules and include the Sought automatically generated daily rules from messages caught in spam traps. Also, read the other " Related Content " articles at this site regarding antispam and SpamAssassin linked. vi /etc/default/spamassassin # Cronjob # Set to anything but 0 to enable the cron job to automatically update # spamassassin's rules on a nightly basis #AFM 20150723 https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ImproveAccuracy CRON=1 mkdir ~/spamassassin cd ~/spamassassin/ mkdir /etc/spamassassin/sa-update-keys chmod go-rx /etc/spamassassin/sa-update-keys mkdir -p ~/temp/etc cd ~/temp/etc cp -pr /etc/spamassassin . ls -lh /var/lib/spamassassin/ ls -lh /var/lib/spamassassin/sa-update-keys/ ls -lh /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004000/ ls -lh /va