[Bug 1412830] [NEW] [AHBL] spamassassin is returning false positives by default

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AHBL has discontinued their operations and is deliberetly marking all
checks as positive:

http://www.ahbl.org/content/last-notice-wildcarding-services-jan-1st

AHBL is enabled by default in SpamAssassin in at least 10.04, 12.04 and
14.04. This means that every mail gets 2 points on spam score list.

10.04:

# grep -sr AHBL /usr/share/spamassassin/
/usr/share/spamassassin/30_text_de.cf:lang de describe DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL Absenderadresse in Liste von dnsbl.ahbl.org
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:header DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL      eval:check_rbl_envfrom('ahbl', 'rhsbl.ahbl.org.')
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:describe DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL    Envelope sender listed in dnsbl.ahbl.org
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:tflags DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL      net
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:reuse  DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL 0 2.438 0 2.699 # n=0 n=2

12.04:

# grep -sr AHBL /usr/share/spamassassin/
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL 0 2.438 0 2.699 # n=0 n=2
/usr/share/spamassassin/30_text_de.cf:lang de describe DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL Absenderadresse in Liste von dnsbl.ahbl.org
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:header DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL      eval:check_rbl_envfrom('ahbl', 'rhsbl.ahbl.org.')
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:describe DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL    Envelope sender listed in dnsbl.ahbl.org
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:tflags DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL      net
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:reuse  DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL

14.04:

# grep -sr AHBL /usr/share/spamassassin/
/usr/share/spamassassin/30_text_de.cf:lang de describe DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL Absenderadresse in Liste von dnsbl.ahbl.org
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL 0 2.438 0 2.699 # n=0 n=2
/usr/share/spamassassin/30_text_pt_br.cf:lang pt_BR describe DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL Envelope sender consta em dnsbl.ahbl.org
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:header DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL      eval:check_rbl_envfrom('ahbl', 'rhsbl.ahbl.org.')
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:describe DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL    Envelope sender listed in dnsbl.ahbl.org
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:tflags DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL      net
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf:reuse  DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL


AHBL should be removed from SpamAssassin ASAP.

** Affects: spamassassin (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Critical
         Status: Confirmed

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[AHBL] spamassassin is returning false positives by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1412830
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