On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:26:36PM +0100, Wolfgang Karall wrote: > but still got mails flagged with FH_DATE_PAST_20XX. At that time the > file /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf already had the updated regex, > but only once I ran sa-update (which also updated the file > in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org/72_active.cf ) new > mails didn't get flagged as false-positive because of FH_DATE_PAST_20XX. > > Hmm, so why didn't upgrading the package and restarting amavisd-new do > the trick all by itself?
Because the updates, in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/, override the rules in /usr/share/spamassassin. For people using sa-update, the updated packages were just about worthless, really. You still needed to install a local workaround (typically by disabling FH_DATE_PAST_20XX in local.cf) until sa-update pulled in the fix. But people wanted them... noah
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