SpamAssassin 2010 Bug

SEWilco writes "You might want to check your spam folder, as SpamAssassin has a rule which is tending to mark email sent in 2010 as spam. There is some discussion in a bug report. The SpamAssassin Wiki FH_DATE_PAST_20XX page doesn't have discussion, but it was updated today with a different date rule."

Comments

Re:crapola

[godrik]

I love helpful responses from idiots that start with "first, edit the /etc/spamassassin.conf file"

Yes. That's easy! First edit the /etc/spamassassin.conf file!
Wait a sec...

Re:crapola

[karnal]

I think you missed the "My provider runs spamassassin" part of the parent post.

Nice....

[kramer]

[url]https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5852[/url]

Noticed 14 months ago. Fixed 5 months ago. Released today.

Re:"I'll just use a regex!"

[ubrgeek]

It depends. If the email from San Francisco was traveling east going 400 miles per hour and the email from NZ is going west at .... ;)

Now it shows up

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahh, the y2k.01 bug, naturally.

Re:One hack replaced by another

[JWSmythe]

    I just fixed a mail server for someone (after reading the article), and told them to remind me in 10 years to fix it again. :) Hopefully by then, they'll have rewritten the rule so it behaves better.

Re:What do we call this?

[andreyvul]

Y2KX has a better ring to it.

I almost missed some important mail!

[darthwader]

"You might want to check your spam folder, as SpamAssassin has a rule ...

Thanks for the heads-up. There was a very important e-mail from the Internet Lottery people telling me my e-mail address had been picked as the winner of the EUR 20,000 prize. All I have to do is send them $200 by Western Union to cover the processing fees. And to think I almost missed it!

It's terrible that SpamAssassin flags such important messages as spam.