SPAMASSASSIN-MAINT(8)

💖 SPAMASSASSIN-MAINT(8) 💖

ok so you know how there's a whole System Manager's Manual situation going on here? bestie, this is the spamassassin-maint page and she is lowkey the backbone of your whole spam setup 🧚✨

✨ NAME ✨

spamassassin-maint — perform spamassassin maintenance tasks 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So spamassassin-maint does the periodic spamassassin maintainance, bestie — and yes that includes running sa-update and sa-compile. it's literally the little chore-runner that keeps your rules fresh 🫶

it's typically executed via the spamassassin-maintenance.timer timer or via cron. like, that's its whole moment to shine ✨

spamassassin-maint takes no options. none. zero. it does not want your flags, it does not want your opinions, it just wants to do its job 💀

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

the program generates no output and exits with a zero status if successful. iconic behaviour, no notes 👑

if unsuccessful? it prints the output of spamassassin --lint and exits with a nonzero status. so basically it's like "here's exactly what's wrong with your config, bestie, read it" 😭

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/spamassassin/ — Sitewide spamassassin configuration 💜
• /etc/default/spamassassin — environment for this and other spamassassin programs 🌈
• /var/lib/spamassassin/ — Directory containing downloaded updates and compiled spamassassin rules 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

spamassassin-maint was written for Debian by Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> 💖

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

ok the lore 📖 — much of the content of spamassassin-maint originated with spamassassin's daily cron script, originally written by Duncan Findlay <duncf@debian.org> and subsequently modified by Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org>.

it was converted to a standalone program to facilitate its use outside of cron. glow-up fr fr ✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• spamassassin(1)
• spamd(8)
• sa-compile(1)
• sa-update(1)

and that's the whole page bestie — SPAMASSASSIN-MAINT(8), straight from the System Manager's Manual, no cap 💅💖