Author: Gedalya Date: To: Jorge Listas, exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] How to make that spamassassin rules take effect in exim
On 8/20/21 2:10 AM, Jorge Listas wrote: > After making the changes I just restart exim. Should I also restart spamassassin or some other service?
If the changes are to spamassassin rules / configuration, there is no reason to restart exim at all.
If the rules are in files and are applying to the global configuration, you typically would need to restart spamd (the spamassassin daemon).
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> For example I tell you: yesterday I made changes to the rules and the immediate tests I did were not being taken into account.
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> Today I did new tests and the rules that I had modified yesterday are now processed correctly. In other words, they are being taken into account in the spam analysis process.
> That makes sense. Typically a cron job updates spamassassin rules and compiles them and restarts spamassassin. >
> But I added other new rules and they are still not being considered.
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> It is evident that there is something that at some point of the day happens on the server so that the new set of rules begins to apply.
> Right, your own changes got applied as a side effect.
