Y2K10 Rule Bug

[Hassan El Jacifi]

Binary package hint: spamassassin

Versions of the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule released with versions of Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 thru 3.2.5 will trigger on most mail with a Date header that includes the year 2010 or later. The rule will add a score of up to 3.6 towards the spam classification of all email. You should take corrective action immediately

More info:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/

Solutions:
If you want to change this test to 'later than 2020' , edit the following file:

1)sudo vi /usr/share/spamassassin/locate 72_active.cf
2) search 'FH_DATE_PAST_20XX'
3) change '/20[1-9][0-9]/' to '/20[2-9][0-9]/'

[Hassan El Jacifi (waver)]

I have some false positif mails with this score:

 pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 3.2 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Please see the status in the other bug. Fixes have already been deployed or need testing depending on which release you are using.