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and subject line Bug#949370: fixed in spamass-milter 0.4.0-5
has caused the Debian Bug report #949370,
regarding spamass-milter: synthesized received header sometimes use the
sendmail start time instead of current time
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Package: spamass-milter
Version: 0.4.0-1+b1
Severity: important
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Dear Maintainer,
I recently became aware that spamassassin reports a large number of false
DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q positives. Being a pretty good spam indicator, this
test has a relatively high score, causing many non-spam messages to be
classified as spam.
But I was unable to reproduce the problem when running spamc from the
command line, using the same input emails spamass-milter had rejected.
Looking further into this, I found that the problem is caused by the
Received header synthesized by spamass-milter. I enabled "-d spamc"
and captured these 5 examples:
Jan 20 10:37:01 canardo spamass-milter[15003]: Received header for spamc:
Received: from mxphxpool1028.ebay.com (mxphxpool1028.ebay.com
[66.211.184.94])#015#012#011by canardo.mork.no (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id
00K9b03T015037#015#012#011Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:59:12
+0100#015#012#011(envelope-from <[email protected]>);#015
Jan 20 10:37:17 canardo spamass-milter[15003]: Received header for spamc:
Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67])#015#012#011by
canardo.mork.no (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 00K9bHZv015075#015#012#011Mon, 20
Jan 2020 10:37:17 +0100#015#012#011(envelope-from
<[email protected]>);#015
Jan 20 10:38:39 canardo spamass-milter[15003]: Received header for spamc:
Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67])#015#012#011by
canardo.mork.no (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 00K9cdBm015126#015#012#011Mon, 20
Jan 2020 10:38:39 +0100#015#012#011(envelope-from
<[email protected]>);#015
Jan 20 10:38:48 canardo spamass-milter[15003]: Received header for spamc:
Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67])#015#012#011by
canardo.mork.no (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 00K9cdBn015126#015#012#011Mon, 13
Jan 2020 18:59:12 +0100#015#012#011(envelope-from
<[email protected]>);#015
Jan 20 10:40:40 canardo spamass-milter[15003]: Received header for spamc:
Received: from puck.nether.net (puck.nether.net [204.42.254.5])#015#012#011by
canardo.mork.no (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 00K9edpQ017980#015#012#011Mon,
13 Jan 2020 18:59:12 +0100#015#012#011(envelope-from
<[email protected]>);#015
It is pretty clear from the above that only 2 of the headers use the correct
current time, matching the log time. The 3 other mails all got a header
with a completely bogus "Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:59:12" date.
But the bogus date is not arbitrary. Looking closer I noticed that
the date is the start time for the sendmail process:
bjorn@canardo:~$ ls --full-time /proc/$(pidof "sendmail: MTA: accepting
connections")/cmdline
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2020-01-13 18:59:12.097744044 +0100
/proc/13048/cmdline
This bug has caused my mail server to reject a large number of non-spam
email, using tests which are enabled by default and having default scores.
I do therefore consider it important.
spamass-milter cannot currently not be used without either disabling the
received date tests or setting the scores to 0.
Bjørn
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages spamass-milter depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libmilter1.0.1 8.15.2-14~deb10u1
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
ii spamc 3.4.2-1+deb10u1
Versions of packages spamass-milter recommends:
ii sendmail 8.15.2-14~deb10u1
ii spamassassin 3.4.2-1+deb10u1
spamass-milter suggests no packages.
- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/spamass-milter changed [not included]
- -- no debconf information
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Source: spamass-milter
Source-Version: 0.4.0-5
Done: Don Armstrong <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
spamass-milter, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Don Armstrong <[email protected]> (supplier of updated spamass-milter package)
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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:52:41 -0800
Source: spamass-milter
Architecture: source
Version: 0.4.0-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Don Armstrong <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Don Armstrong <[email protected]>
Closes: 949370 1004485 1031196 1121631
Changes:
spamass-milter (0.4.0-5) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Fix typo in postinst when adding spamass-milter to postfix.
Thanks to Michael Milligan (Closes: #1121631)
* Synthesize macro $b using the current time.
Thanks to Bjørn Mork (Closes: #949370, #1031196, #1004485)
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