Bug 299300

Summary:	mail-filter/spamassassin maybe considering 2010 e-mails spammy.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Philippe Chaintreuil <gentoo_bugs_peep>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/02/0027207/SpamAssassin-2010-Bug
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Philippe Chaintreuil 2010-01-02 03:28:40 UTC

I guess someone hard-coded 2010 and beyond as spammy.

See this Slashdot entry for details: http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/02/0027207/SpamAssassin-2010-Bug

The "fix" (a punt for a decade really) is to change it to 2020 by changing /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf:

1) search 'FH_DATE_PAST_20XX'
2) change '/20[1-9][0-9]/' to '/20[2-9][0-9]/'

We may wish to make a patch and get it out fast.



Reproducible: Always




SA bug report: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269
Another page: https://secure.grepular.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/01/spamassassin-2010-bug/

I set this as "MAJOR" because it adds 3.4 to the spammy scores, which is pretty darn high.

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2010-01-02 03:31:17 UTC

The fix is to sa-update or use 3.2.1-r2 :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 299256 ***