[ale] Date grossly in the future

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed May 18 11:25:22 EDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 11:19 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:
> SpamAssasin has a rule that messages from "the future" are more likely
> to be spam.  However, it bases "the future" off a simple date regex.
> Until June 2009, it treated anything 2010 and later as being "the
> future".[1]  According to your headers, it is being processed by
> SpamAssassin 3.2.5 from 2008.   Thus, 2010+ years are considered spam.
>  The fix wasn't even backported to 3.2. series of SA until 2010 when
> it started blowing things up.[2]
> 
> 
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5852
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269

Thanks.  I can add 4 points to the requirement or update Spamassin.

Chris



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