SARE rules & RulesDuJour

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Intro

In this article we will see how to perform a custom installation of SARE rules. You can find those nice rules here: http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm

This installation is properly set for our tutorial on Installing Spamassassin ClamAv and Mailscanner on Bluequartz ... So if you don't know what we're talkin' about go there and read carefully.

SARE is a repository constantly updated of Spamassassin rules. RulesDuJour is a beautiful script that can update the choosen rules for you via a crontab command.

Installation of RulesDuJour

First of all we must install the update script. The process is quite simple. As root type:

Then we must create a new directory:

Then we can create the config file:

In this file we put all the configuration options. Our file look like this:

Now we can run our first RulesDuJour update:

This script will download the rules specified in TRUSTED_RULESETS config option in /etc/rulesdujour/config

To add the script to crontab just type:

And add the line:

That's done! RulesDuJour will update each date at 23:00 (pls choose another update time)

SARE

Now you must choose your SARE rules from their website and follow the instructions to add them to your TRUSTED_RULESETS config option.