I am running CentOS 5.4 with SpamAssassin installed via yum. However the version yum installed was SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 and I am finding that this version has many outdated rules -- including a rule FH_DATE_PAST_20XX which marks all email from the year 2010 and forward as spam. Not good. yum says SpamAssassin is up to date -- what can I do to make yum keep SpamAssassin really up to date?
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sa-update is a the bundled program to update the rules, including changing that rule to 2020 and later dates.
I have cron set to run it once a month to keep my rules updated.
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1Will this update to the newer rules? I tried this and it said
current version is 895075, new version is 895075, skipping channel– JoshApr 27, 2010 at 19:04 -
@Josh: run
sa-update -D. About the 8th line should read something like "using update directory: /some/path". Make sure that path is where you have your rules located (I don't know where it should be on CentOS)– Chris SApr 27, 2010 at 19:47
The problem you mention is bug 6269 in Spamassassin.
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269
You can check for the rule being right this way:
grep FH_DATE_PAST_20XX /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org/72_active.cf
(you have to adjust that path if you are not running 3.2.5 spamassassin.
It should look like this if the rule was fixed:
header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[2-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006]
