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This is often included in SpamAssassin packaging, but sa-update should be run from cron daily, to get the latest SpamAssassin rules which are generated every day.
(On Debian based systems, set "CRON=1" in /etc/default/spamassassin .)
Enable network rules
This is the default, but disabling network rules (including DNS rules) causes SpamAssassin to be wrong on about 3 times more emails. Network tests may have been disabled by running spamassassin or spamd with the command line arguments -L
or --local
. DNS rules may have been disabled with "dns_available no
" in local.cf. You should run a local caching DNS server for efficiency.
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