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SpamAssassin Bug for 2010

Posted in Problems on Jan 5, 2010 by Natalie Nagele

Just a quick note to email senders. It has been confirmed by SpamAssassin that there is a bug in their software that will affect scoring of legitimate (ham) emails. In short, SpamAssassin had a provision in place to block emails that had been dated in 2010 or later. Well, it’s 2010 and they never made the change. For those companies running SpamAssassin, they will need to make some changes on their setup, which can be found the SpamAssassin website.

The affect to you, as the sender, is that your Spam score could be raised by 3.6 points for sending email this year. This means that an ISP can block you if you have some other issues and have a combined score above their threshold (oftentimes 5.0). If you receive any Blocked bounce statuses from domains in your Bounce Report, this could be due to this issue. We recommend you contact the postmaster of that domain and let them know of the issue. Also, you can resend a previous campaign those subscribers using our Behavioral Sublists.

Let us know if you have any issues or need any help with this. Happy New Year!