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Chealion
Asked: 2010-01-02 11:54:04 +0800 CST

Workaround SpamAssassin Y2K10 Bug (Mac OS X Server)

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Bug Report: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269

It turns out that SpamAssassin is adding a score of 3.2 (FH_DATE_PAST_20XX) to all email going through my mail server (Mac OS X 10.6 Server) because of the above bug.

See log:

Jan  1 09:46:36 mail.example.com /usr/bin/amavisd[25021]: (25021-16) SPAM, <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>, Yes, score=11.101 tag=2 tag2=6 kill=6 tests=[BAYES_99=3.5, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX=3.188, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_32=1.778, HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02=0.383, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_HTML_ONLY=1.457, RDNS_NONE=0.1, SPF_FAIL=0.693, SPF_HELO_FAIL=0.001], autolearn=no, quarantine fydtn7Bx7ffD ([email protected])

In the bug the rule is defined in /rulesrc/sandbox/emailed/00_FVGT_File001.cf however this does not exist on Mac OS X - does any know where this rule is defined on Mac OS X Server? There are no files prepended with 00_ in /usr/share/spamassassin/ which is where I assumed it would be.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Well a little patience and it showed up on one of my mailing lists (and now on Apple's KBase: TS3187):

    Either:

    1) Add to /etc/mail/spamassassin.conf

     score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0.0

    or

    2) Fix the rule in /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf by replacing the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX line with:

    header   FH_DATE_PAST_20XX    Date =~ /20[2-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006]

    or

    3) Run sa-update and that will fix it as well. (Thanks to Matthew Bryant)

    sudo sa-update --nogpg --updatedir /etc/mail/spamassassin --debug
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  2. I had to modify /private/etc/mail/spamassassin/00_FVGT_File001.cf and then restart the mail service instead.

    Updating /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf did nothing for me.

    (Mac OS X Server 10.6.2, pretty much a vanilla install)

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