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spamassassin package

  1. Bug #551655
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 551655

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Pawel Tecza (ptecza) wrote : Re: [Bug 551655] Re: open-whois.org is cybersquatted and its rules should be removed from Spamassassin

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:35:41 -0000
Mathias Gug <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed
> in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx.

Thanks for you reply, Mathias!

I think that closing bug I reported it's not your good decision. Ubuntu
still supports previous releases and IMHO that bug should be fixed there too,
because it's very important for all mail servers using old Spamassassin.

Do you still remember Y2010 problem in Spamassassin? Ubuntu fixed
FH_DATE_PAST_20XX test for Spamassassin in Karmic and Jaunty, because
it could create a lot of false positives. The open-whois.org rules are
false positives too. IMHO there are similar issues.

> This is a important bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in
> previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU
> Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

I don't need a fix for that bug now. I've just removed the
open-whois.org rules on my servers where Spamassassin is running. But I
wanted to help also another Ubuntu admins. I can imagine that some of
them don't know about that problem at all.