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!!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:18 pm
by BruceLee
Hi everybody and a HAPPY NEW YEAR,
just read about this error in spamassassin. Don't know if it should go into section "security alerts"?!
Mails dated 2010 or later might be scored as spam due to a rule in spamassassin.
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/ ... gi?id=6269
right now I have commented out the parts in the 72_active.cf file:
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##{ FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
##header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[1-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006]
##describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future.
##} FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
other option would be changing the line from
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header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[1-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006]
into
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header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[2-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006]
source:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassass ... f_format=h
nice "patch" changing the regex. lets get ready in 2020
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:21 pm
by faris
Good catch. Thanks for the heads up.
Happy new year.
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:26 pm
by mikeshinn
Great warrning - we'll put it on the Security Alerts forum now.
As an aside, if you run sa-update regularly you shouldn't have this issue anymore as the spamassassin rules were updated with this fix:
http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php ... signatures
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:11 pm
by faris
This update didn't make it to sa-update until yesterday/today though. Somewhat late
Faris.
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:46 pm
by mikeshinn
Yeah, kind of annoying too because they fixed in subversion months ago but not in the updates until yesterday?
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassass ... f_format=h
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:48 pm
by Highland
sa-update is failing for me
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]# sa-update
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/Util.pm line 30.
I've found various threads talking about it like
http://fixunix.com/spamassassin/354695- ... -util.html
or
http://www.renaissoft.com/pipermail/mai ... 11800.html
but all pose CPAN solutions. I tried installing perl-Scalar-List-Utils with yum but I get
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Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man3/List::Util.3pm.gz from install of perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.22-1.el5.rf.i386 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
file /usr/share/man/man3/List::Util::XS.3pm.gz from install of perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.22-1.el5.rf.i386 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
file /usr/share/man/man3/Scalar::Util.3pm.gz from install of perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.22-1.el5.rf.i386 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
Am I missing something? I really need to get this fixed because if you have Thunderbird set to trust SA headers then this bug eats email.
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:36 pm
by scott
Ah thats an RPMForge package, you might want to let them know about that.
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:48 pm
by Highland
I will let them know about the PERL issue but what about spamassassin and sa-update? Any ideas?
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# rpm -q spamassassin
spamassassin-3.2.5-1.el5.art
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:34 pm
by mikeshinn
spamassassin is written in PERL, so you'll need to fix that issue with PERL to get the updater working - either that or use our PERL packages.
Re: !!! year 2010 spamassassin score error
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:12 am
by Highland
While I wasn't fond of doing so I did what the thread I linked suggested and ran
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# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Scalar::Util
and that fixed the problem. I can only assume this is a fluke in RHEL.