Keep the spamassassin filter rules up to date in ISPConfig 3

Friday, February 5, 2010 posted by Till

To update the spamassassin rules regularily on your ISPConfig 3 server, add the following line to the root crontab by running:

crontab -e


then insert the following line:

23 4 */2 * * /usr/bin/sa-update --no-gpg &> /dev/null


and save the file. The path to the sa-update script is /usr/bin/sa-update on Ubuntu and Debian Linux, if you use a different linux distrubution, run the command:

which sa-update


to find the location of the sa-update script and adjust the path in the crontab line above so that it matches the path on your system.

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2 Responses to “Keep the spamassassin filter rules up to date in ISPConfig 3”

  1. giftsnake says:

    for debian, the correct command is:

    /usr/bin/sa-update –no-gpg &> /dev/null

    (notice the two ‘-’

  2. Till says:

    Thanks for noticing me. Thats a display problem in worpress, it changes – - (without the whitespace between it) to a special html character which looks like – in the browser. I will have to check the wordpress sources, very annoying :(

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