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SpamAssassin Bug

Monday, January 4, 2010 by Al Iverson
If you're a user of our Reputation Reporting, and you've run a report within the past few days, you may have noticed a SpamAssassin rule showing up,  "FH_DATE_PAST_20XX." The rule attempts to catch spam that is dated far in the future. Unfortunately, because of a bug in this SpamAssassin rule, 2010 is considered to be far in the future.

The net result is that as of January 1st, a whole bunch of legitimate mail was much more likely to be tagged as spam by SpamAssassin users all around the world. Oooops.

We've updated the Reputation Reporting's copy of SpamAssassin to address the bug, and any tests run from this point forward should will not have this rule trigger undeservedly.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the ExactTarget Deliverability team and we'll be happy to assist. You can reach us at deliverability AT exacttarget.com.

Comments for SpamAssassin Bug

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Kyra Zandberg:
I don't have spamassasin or the file that needs to be changed for the fix. I have no idea what to do. I could hardly understand any of the directions.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 by Al Iverson:
Hi, Kyra. If you don't have SpamAssassin, then you wouldn't be able to fix this. If you are having a problem with somebody's SpamAssassin, you would need to ask them to fix it. (Like, if it was ExactTarget's copy of SpamAssassin, you would have to ask us.) It doesn't sound as though you are the intended target for the fix.

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