bugtraq - Re: Y2K10 spamassassin bug, 2010 year mails discared as spam

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:02:16 -0500
From: Steve Shockley <steve.shockley@...ckley.net>
To: Eduardo Romero <edo@....cl>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Y2K10 spamassassin bug, 2010 year mails discared as spam

On 1/4/2010 9:53 AM, Eduardo Romero wrote:

> .- file /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf

According to http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates, this 
should probably be /var/lib/spamassassin or something similar, under /var.

> .- add score 0 to this rule at /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf

This should probably go in your local.cf so you don't wipe it out 
accidentally.

> The 'sa-update' options not always works for me.

Yes, on my system it turned out sa-update was working just fine, but 
some programs were looking at the wrong set of rules so it looked like 
sa-update wasn't working.