Are SpamAssassin signatures updated automatically?

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MKle

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Hallo

We are a non-profit organization.
I have set up Proxmox Mail Gateway to directly refuse incoming spam.
That has been working great so far.

Now some users report a degradation in the filter performance: more spams arrive.
I am now wondering if the system automatically updates the SpamAssassin signatures?
(If “signature” is the wrong term, then please let me know.)

There is an "Update now" button in https://mail-gateway.xxxxx.de:8006/#pmgSpamDetectorConfiguration:status .
When I first called it today, it found an update.

I talked to Claude.ai, and Claude thinks there is no automatic update in place.
It suggests I run the following every day:
Bash: 
/usr/bin/sa-update --nogpg && /usr/sbin/service pmg-smtp-filter reload 2>&1 | logger -t sa-update
Does that sound like a good plan?

Thanks
M
 
What do you mean there is no auto update? You mean we have to update from the web interface or command line manually? That could certainly explain why I get more and more spam since I deployed this as I never did that.
 
My question is:
  1. Is there an automatic update?
  2. Or do I need to update myself?
    1. in the UI
    2. via the cron job posted before
 
MKle said:
My question is:
  1. Is there an automatic update?
  2. Or do I need to update myself?
    1. in the UI
    2. via the cron job posted before
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It should update automatically. I just checked my interface, and it says last update today.
 
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