I felt that our spam filter was not as ‘sharp’ as it had been in the past, so it was time to add some extra bite. A colleague had recommended the SoughtRules so i thought I’d give them a go. To utilise them use the sa-update with an extra channel. I’m using FreeBSD (obviously) and heres how to set up:
1. Fetch the gpg key and install it to the keyring
fetch http://yerp.org/rules/GPG.KEY sa-update --import GPG.KEY
2. Test the system
sa-update -v --gpgkey 6C6191E3 --channel sought.rules.yerp.org --channel updates.spamassassin.org
Confirm bu checking the files have been installed:
# ls -lah /var/db/spamassassin/3.003002/sought_rules_yerp_org total 80 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512B Nov 27 18:16 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512B Nov 27 18:17 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 30k Nov 27 18:16 20_sought.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 35k Nov 27 18:16 20_sought_fraud.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 52B Nov 27 18:16 MIRRORED.BY
3. Add to /etc/crontab
# # Update the sa sigs # 00 */6 * * * root /usr/local/bin/sa-update -v --gpgkey 6C6191E3 --channel sought.rules.yerp.org --channel updates.spamassassin.org
