from stable branch of SA CVS repository.
On other operating systems 'spamc' was reported to cause a core dump if
'spamd' was not running. At least NetBSD/i386 1.5.3 seems not to be as
severely affected, I only got 'spamc in free(): warning: junk
pointer, too high to make sense.'.
from stable branch of SA CVS repository.
On other operating systems 'spamc' was reported to cause a core dump if
'spamd' was not running. At least NetBSD/i386 1.5.3 seems not to be as
severely affected, I only got 'spamc in free(): warning: junk
pointer, too high to make sense.'.
Parts of patch-ag and patch-ah as well as complete patch-aa could be
removed again, they are now included in SA 2.44 (see below).
#### official release announcement ###############
This is a bug-fix release, which fixes the following bugs:
- Backport fix for Bug 1306: Possible buffer overflow in libspamc when
running in BSMTP mode (patch 1.15 -> 1.18)
- Backport workaround from Bug 526: Failed sanity check because of
clobbered STDOUT (patch 1.147 -> 1.148)
- Backport fix for Debian Bug 160206: Insufficient buffer in libspamc
(patch 1.8 -> 1.9)
- Backport fix for warnings in sed_path (patch 1.141 -> 1.142)
- Backport fix for Bug 1127: Existing lowercase x-spam-status header
kills SpamAssassin (patch 1.40 -> 1.41)
- localized %ENV to fix problem where Razor2 erases the PATH so DCC
and
pyzor don't work, etc.
Note that this is *not* 2.50, which offers Bayesian filtering etc. These
bugs are already fixed in the 2.50 CVS tree, but that is not yet ready for
release. This is a stable maintainance release only.
have it be automatically included by bsd.pkg.mk if USE_PKGINSTALL is set
to "YES". This enforces the requirement that bsd.pkg.install.mk be
included at the end of a package Makefile. Idea suggested by Julio M.
Merino Vidal <jmmv at menta.net>.
load_rc_config in NetBSD 1.6. This resolves PR pkg/18928 by Frank Cusack
(fcusack at fcusack com).
The rc.d script is now called on 'shutdown'.
Included fixes from SA CVS repository (2002-10-21) to minimize
impact of Razor2 on the environment vector, especially PATH.
Bumped PKGREVISION.
RCD_SCRIPT_SRC.spamd definition. The reason is that WRKSRC isn't defined
by the time we get down to bsd.pkg.install.mk, so the dependency logic
replaces "${WRKSRC}" with "", which is wrong.
XXX bsd.pkg.install.mk should really be included by bsd.pkg.mk, in much the
XXX same way bsd.buildlink2.mk is included by bsd.pkg.mk. It would remove
XXX these ordering problems with variables not being available.
Item 1) was already provided by 'inofficial' patch-af for 2.42 (now
removed).
Two new patches (-ag and -ah) from the SpamAssassin-current repository
work around a roblem with razor2 timeouts.
Logo 'ninjabutton.png' is now in the correct html directory.
Official changes:
1) AWL change reverted; instead of decreasing the AWL bias gradually to
allow frequently-seen addresses to get into the "nonspam" area, it now
behaves like 2.31 did, in that the AWL simply represents the
long-term average score from that correspondent.
2) core-dump bug in spamd worked around, _except for the "-m" switch_.
The "-m" switch relies on signal handling in the Perl interpreter,
which seems to have some bugs we cannot work around reliably on some
platforms, so its use is no longer recommended.
3) some portability fixes for SunOS.
Boquist).
- Included fix for bad AWL behaviour which will also be in 2.50 (maybe 2.43)
(ie AWL works the same again as in SA 2.31). This causes revision bump.
Uses buildlink2 and module.mk. Some perl scripts for rule developers
(in PREFIX/share/doc/spamassassin/{masses,tools}/) and a small SpamAssassin
logo (PREFIX/share/doc/spamassassin/html/) are now included.
New netbsd_lists.cf file to reduce false positives on NetBSD lists (so
far, only some rules for netbsd-bugs).
Changes:
- bug fixes
- new, better scores (intensive testing was done to improve on 2.40 and
2.41)
- netbsd rc.d script works now with NetBSD 1.5 and 1.6
- management of addresses in the automatic whitlist now easier with
dedicated options (--add-addr-to-whitelist, --remove-addr-from-whitelist)
Major changes include:
- SpamAssassin now *REQUIRES* procmail for local delivery support; "-P"
option is now the default. Unless you use procmail, Mail::Audit, KMail,
or an MTA-level integration, do not upgrade blindly, your mail *WILL*
spill all over the floor in a big mess.
- significant speed increases, mostly from Matt Sergeant and Dan Quinlan
- bugs in whitelist_to, all_spam_to and friends fixed
- rules which were causing too many false-positives removed or fixed:
DOUBLE_CAPSWORD, UPPERCASE_25_50, PARTIAL_RFC_2369, MSGID_CHARS_SPAM,
many others
- lots of rule fixes, and lots of new rules
SpamAssassin is a mail filter which attempts to identify spam using text
analysis and several internet-based realtime blacklists.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail
headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited
commercial email.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later
filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
In its most recent test, SpamAssassin differentiated between spam and
non-spam mail correctly in 99.94% of cases. Since then, it's just been
getting better and better!
