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Comment by bartman | Hacker News Reader

Ubuntu 9.04 affected too, thanks for posting.

Summary: FH_DATE_PAST_20XX matches on yars 2010-2099.

As a workaround until the spamassasin rules are updated, the score can be lowered in local.cf: score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0.0

An alternate workaround (which doesn't disable the check altogether, but watch out in 2020!):

    locate 72_active.cf && sudo vi 'locate 72_active.cf'
    search 'FH_DATE_PAST_20XX'
    change '/20[1-9][0-9]/' to '/20[2-9][0-9]/'

This patch is now available via sa-update. Check what you have with this command (assuming your path is similar):

  grep FH_DATE_PAST_20XX /var/lib/spamassassin/3.*/updates_spamassassin_org/72_active.cf

If needed, update with this command:

  sa-update

Then check again to confirm.

If you don't already, consider running sa-update daily in a cron job to mitigate the damage from bugs like these and to benefit from other changes.