SpamAssassin '2010' Bug Blocked E-mail Across World


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SpamAssassin '2010' Bug Blocked E-mail Across World

John E. Dunn, Techworld.com

If you sent an email in the first few hours of 2010, there is a chance that it never reached its recipient thanks to an embarrassing '2010' bug buried in the open source SpamAssassin anti-spam engine used by many Internet Service Providers.

According to a UK-based techie who first blogged on the issue, the fault lies with the 'FH_DATE_PAST_20XX' rule used in conjunction with many others by the program to score the likelihood of an email being spam. This assigns an especially high score to any email it encounters that has within its header a date beyond a defined point in the future, normally a reliable sign that the email in question is suspicious.

More details on this story at PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article/186215/spamassassin_2010_bug_blocked_email_across_world.html

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