On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 11:46 -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> OK, so I haven't upgraded spamassassin for a while, just distro updates. 
> I just learned it has been throwing out many emails dated 2010 . 
> Fortunately, there is an easy fix:
> 
> In /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf :
> 
> The header line should be:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> header   FH_DATE_PAST_20XX      Date =~ /20[0-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006]^M
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> No time to do much more with that; if someone else wants to track this
> down, see how prevalent it is, submit a bug report, etc. that would
> help us all.   I've got about 8 days of unanswered emails to deal with!


It is a problem "fixed" long ago, but not yet available in the updates.

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

Sounds like a real FUBAR at SpamAssassin.


Easy short term fix: 
 
* Assign a score of 0 to the rule until the update filters down from
upstream.


# cat >> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf <<"EOF"
score  FH_DATE_PAST_20XX  0
EOF

# restorecon -v /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

...and then restart spamassassin if it is already running.


Steve