[ubuntu-server] Stable Release Update for Spamassassin

[Scott Kitterman]

> Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> As many of you who run Spamassassin already know, there is a bug (see
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hardy-backports/+bug/502071 for details) in
>> Spamassassin where all mails sent in 2010 are tripping the
>> FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
>> rule.
>>
>> For some sites, this may cause all mail that is not explicitly
>> whitelisted to
>> get marked spam (it's a relatively heavily scored rule).  This is
>> already fixed
>> in hardy-backports and lucid.  It does not affect the packaged versions
>> of
>> spamassassin in dapper or dapper-backports.
>>
>> There are proposed updates for hardy, intrepid, jaunty, and karmic that
>> need
>> testing.  They are all built or building now and should be available in
>> the *-
>> proposed repository.  Please test and comment in the bug so we can get
>> these
>> out to *-updates as soon as possible.  See the bug for details.
> Scott:
>
> Thanks for the notice.  I hadn't heard this anywhere else.
>
> I added the following to my spamassassin prefs as a workaround:
>
>   score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0
>
> When I get a bit more time, I'll test -proposed.  Do you know when this
> might get into -updates?
>
> --
> Eric Hammond

It's in -updates for Hardy and Karmic now (also fixed in Lucid).  Intrepid
and Jaunty need testing yet (it'd be really nice if someone has a spare VM
laying around if they could verify these so we can close the books on this
for another decade).

Scott K