SpamAssassin 2010 issue - Marking mail as Junk

Hi Folks,
It looks like we have officially arrived in the future. There is a known issue with SpamAssassin adding up to 3.6 points to all mail sent after 2010. You will see an increase in false positives until your server has been updated. The solutions have been posted on the SA site.
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
Two options:
Update the included rules, or disable the offending rule.
You can exclude the rule by adding "score FHDATE_PAST20XX 0" without the quotes to the end of your /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file.
I was able to update the built in rules with:
sudo sa-update --nogpg --updatedir /etc/mail/spamassassin --debug
You will most likely need to restart mail for either of these to take effect. Welcome to 2010, and a have a great year!
-Matt

Hi!
I've seen lots of false positives since 2010 and supposed I was affected by this problem. But the steps described didn't help me so far. I've been running sudo sa-update --nogpg --updatedir /etc/mail/spamassassin --debug
and I've been adding score FHDATE_PAST20XX 0 to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. Also I've followed the tips here http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/147/45/ and downloaded the .cf file into the spamassassin directory.
Reloaded amavis, nothing changed. Issued sudo serveradmin stop/start mail and postfix wouldn't load anymore. Restarted the server and found wrong permissions on amavisd. Postfix would'nt load anymore. Had to uncheck and check SMTP in SA to get mail running again. But the SPAM problem persisted.
Now I had to turn Junk mail filtering off in SA to prevent every mail from being marked as spam. Anyone has some tips for me?
Here is what I see in mail.log when mail is incoming:
Jan 7 18:46:32 tilley postfix/smtpd[1384]: connect from smtp-05.sil.at[78.142.186.21]
Jan 7 18:46:32 tilley postfix/smtpd[1384]: E36ACE0FB58: client=smtp-05.sil.at[78.142.186.21]
Jan 7 18:46:32 tilley postfix/cleanup[1388]: E36ACE0FB58: message-id=<[email protected]>
Jan 7 18:46:32 tilley postfix/qmgr[1357]: E36ACE0FB58: from=<[email protected]>, size=989, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 7 18:46:32 tilley postfix/smtpd[1384]: disconnect from smtp-05.sil.at[78.142.186.21]
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley amavis[1366]: (01366-01) ESMTP::10024 /var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20100107T184633-01366: <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]> SIZE=989 Received: from mxr.at ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tilley.server [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP for <[email protected]>; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 18:46:33 +0100 (CET)
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley amavis[1366]: (01366-01) Checking: ofxUxWXM4T8L [78.142.186.21] <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley amavis[1366]: (01366-01) p001 1 Content-Type: text/plain, size: 7 B, name:
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley postfix/smtpd[1393]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley postfix/smtpd[1393]: CFD28E0FB65: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley postfix/cleanup[1388]: CFD28E0FB65: message-id=<[email protected]>
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley postfix/qmgr[1357]: CFD28E0FB65: from=, size=1655, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley postfix/smtpd[1393]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley amavis[1366]: (01366-01) SEND via SMTP: -> <[email protected]>,[email protected] BODY=7BIT 250 2.6.0 Ok, id=01366-01, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as CFD28E0FB65
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley amavis[1366]: (01366-01) SPAM, <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>, Yes, score=7.426 tag=2 tag2=3 kill=3 tests=[AWL=3.111, BAYES_60=1, RCVDIN_NJABLRELAY=2.696, RCVDIN_SORBSWEB=0.619], autolearn=no, quarantine ofxUxWXM4T8L ([email protected])
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley amavis[1366]: (01366-01) Blocked SPAM, [78.142.186.21] [76.79.193.194] <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>, Message-ID: <[email protected]>, mail_id: ofxUxWXM4T8L, Hits: 7.426, size: 989, 972 ms
Jan 7 18:46:33 tilley amavis[1366]: (01366-01) TIMING [total 998 ms] - SMTP greeting: 17 (2%)2, SMTP EHLO: 7 (1%)2, SMTP pre-MAIL: 6 (1%)3, mkdir tempdir: 4 (0%)3, create email.txt: 3 (0%)4, SMTP pre-DATA-flush: 15 (1%)5, SMTP DATA: 3 (0%)6, check_init: 3 (0%)6, digest_hdr: 2 (0%)6, digest_body: 2 (0%)6, genmailid: 4 (0%)7, mkdir parts: 3 (0%)7, mime_decode: 33 (3%)10, get-file-type1: 67 (7%)17, decompose_part: 7 (1%)18, parts_decode: 0 (0%)18, check_header: 6 (1%)18, AV-scan-1: 25 (2%)21, spam-wb-list: 12 (1%)22, SA msg read: 3 (0%)22, SA parse: 81 (8%)30, SA check: 470 (47%)77, update_cache: 15 (1%)79, decidemaildestiny: 15 (1%)80, fwd-connect: 62 (6%)87, fwd-mail-pip: 11 (1%)88, fwd-rcpt-pip: 1 (0%)88, fwd-data-chkpnt: 1 (0%)88, write-header: 1 (0%)88, fwd-data-contents: 0 (0%)88, fwd-end-chkpnt: 11 (1%)89, prepare-dsn: 10 (1%)90, mainlogentry: 78 (8%)98, update_snmp: 2 (0%)98, SMTP pre-response: 1 (0%)98, SMTP response: 1 (0%)98, unlink-1-files: 14 (1%)100, rundown: 1 (0%)100
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/smtp[1389]: E36ACE0FB58: to=<[email protected]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=1.1, delays=0.06/0.02/0.03/0.96, dsn=5.7.0, status=bounced (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 554 5.7.0 Reject, id=01366-01 - SPAM (in reply to end of DATA command))
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/cleanup[1388]: 09FCDE0FB6A: message-id=<[email protected]>
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/bounce[1399]: E36ACE0FB58: sender non-delivery notification: 09FCDE0FB6A
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/qmgr[1357]: 09FCDE0FB6A: from=, size=2740, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/qmgr[1357]: E36ACE0FB58: removed
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/pipe[1396]: CFD28E0FB65: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.64, delays=0.01/0.03/0/0.59, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/qmgr[1357]: CFD28E0FB65: removed
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/pipe[1401]: 09FCDE0FB6A: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.45, delays=0.05/0.02/0/0.39, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
Jan 7 18:46:34 tilley postfix/qmgr[1357]: 09FCDE0FB6A: removed
Thanks so much in advance!
Chris
Message was edited by: criuz

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