Notes for Spamassassin for RHEL or Fedora ========================================= Upstream spamassassin is no longer distributed with rules. Our package contains rules in order to be less of a surprise to system administrators. However just as you wouldn't rely on antivirus software without signature updates, spamassassin cannot be relied upon without regular rule updates. A systemd timer unit/service is provided to do this daily. Note that the update script runs sa-update only if a known spam daemon is running: spamd, amavisd, or mimedefang. If you do not run any of these spam daemons but wish to have nightly sa-update, you may override the daemon check in /etc/sysconfig/sa-update /etc/mail/spamassassin/channel.d All sa-update channels are defined in files contained in this directory. See the existing config files as examples for writing your own config file.