https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7959

Bill Cole <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |WORKSFORME
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #1 from Bill Cole <[email protected]> ---
This was also reported on the users mailing list, and I see evidence of it
occurring in the morning (UTC) of 2022-02-27 on a system that I help manage.
The last one I see in the logs was shortly before 11:00 UTC. None of the
messages I had access to which misfired earlier did so when I retested after
18:00 UTC

Unfortunately, we do not have any examples of actual messages that
*reproducibly* misfire on FROM_FMBLA_NEWDOM. Because it is a DNSBL rule and the
DNSBL behind it (the 'fresh' sub-list of fmb.la) is operated by design to be
rapidly changing, the most likely explanation for the many misfires is a glitch
in the operation of the DNSBL. As with all the other DNSBLs used by
SpamAssassin, fmb.la is NOT a service we have any control over, so we can't say
for sure what happened during the period of problems. 

IF you have a message that misfires NOW on FROM_FMBLA_NEWDOM, that would
indicate that there is a persistent problem with SpamAssassin that we could
address or with the DNSBL that the operators of fmb.la could address. Absent
such evidence, and because my own retests of earlier-misfiring messages did not
misfire, I can only conclude that this was a transient mistake by fmb.la and is
not actionable by us.

Recent network mass-checks (see ruleqa.spamassassin.org) consistently show
FROM_FMBLA_NEWDOM over 99.5% accurate, so this does not seem to be a frequent
sort of incident which would merit review of the rule's inclusion and scoring.

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