[ale] Date grossly in the future

[David Tomaschik]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> 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

FWIW, I'd probably update... who knows what else has been fixed/patched/etc.

Just my .02.


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