WARNING! Email deliverability is screwed for the next few days
Sorry about the 'warning' header but SpamAssassin has a 2010 bug that is yet unresolved.
Since 2010, SpamAssassin is causing a LOT of false positives by adding anywhere from 2.1 to 3.2 points to spam scores now what we are in the year 2010. The associated 'reason' for the false positive is "The date is grossly in the future." which obviously enough isn't the case since 2010 is not grossly in the future (any longer)
This means your email messages now have up to 3.2 spamassassin points automatically added to them on unpatched machines. There is little you can do as a marketer sending emails.. cross your fingers and keep an eye on the status of this bug.
There was a workaround created about 5 months ago but it didn't make it into the 'release' code (which is updated by calling the 'sa-update' command).
If you have your own dedicated server and you receive emails on it, (for helpdesk, feedback, etc) I would propose you comment out the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule from your .cf file.
My .cf files are in these folders:
/usr/share/spamassassin/
/etc/mail/spamassassin/
You can search for the 2010 bug code on your server as follows:
find /usr/share/spamassassin/ -type f -name "*.cf" -exec grep -li "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX" {} \;
find /etc/mail/spamassassin/ -type f -name "*.cf" -exec grep -li "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX" {} \;
Once you have commented out those lines containing FH_DATE_PAST_20XX (by putting a # at the beginning) restart spamassasin as follows:
service spamassassin restart
Here is the official page for the bug:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssass...ug.cgi?id=6269
I hope aweber and others have modified their spamassassin .cf files to overcome this silly issue. It's like Y2K all over again.
Again, sorry about the thread title, but this is very important and affects all us marketers.
Sean
Since 2010, SpamAssassin is causing a LOT of false positives by adding anywhere from 2.1 to 3.2 points to spam scores now what we are in the year 2010. The associated 'reason' for the false positive is "The date is grossly in the future." which obviously enough isn't the case since 2010 is not grossly in the future (any longer)
This means your email messages now have up to 3.2 spamassassin points automatically added to them on unpatched machines. There is little you can do as a marketer sending emails.. cross your fingers and keep an eye on the status of this bug.
There was a workaround created about 5 months ago but it didn't make it into the 'release' code (which is updated by calling the 'sa-update' command).
If you have your own dedicated server and you receive emails on it, (for helpdesk, feedback, etc) I would propose you comment out the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule from your .cf file.
My .cf files are in these folders:
/usr/share/spamassassin/
/etc/mail/spamassassin/
You can search for the 2010 bug code on your server as follows:
find /usr/share/spamassassin/ -type f -name "*.cf" -exec grep -li "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX" {} \;
find /etc/mail/spamassassin/ -type f -name "*.cf" -exec grep -li "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX" {} \;
Once you have commented out those lines containing FH_DATE_PAST_20XX (by putting a # at the beginning) restart spamassasin as follows:
service spamassassin restart
Here is the official page for the bug:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssass...ug.cgi?id=6269
I hope aweber and others have modified their spamassassin .cf files to overcome this silly issue. It's like Y2K all over again.
Again, sorry about the thread title, but this is very important and affects all us marketers.
Sean
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