All - For those of you who may have experienced alcohol-related blackouts in the past 48 hours, please be advised that the year is now 2010. This is relevant for many reasons, one of which is that there appears to be a bug in "SpamAssassin", one of the spam filtering programs used on our servers. A particular rule that checks the date of messages with the purpose of finding messages that are "far in the future" apparently does NOT know that the year is 2010. As a result, as of yesterday morning, this rule started to be applied to all mail processed by SpamAssassin installations worldwide, resulting in a significant increase in legitimate mail being incorrectly tagged as Spam. The rule in question was designed to find mail that was extremely off-date, and, therefore, the rule had a very high default score, which would push tagged mail well over all reasonable spam thresholds. This bug affects everyone, and has been documented everywhere: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6269 et al. I found this problem in my own mail yesterday evening, and removed that rule from all of our servers at that time. However, from 00:01 until about 19:30 Pacific time January 1, some legitimate mail sent through our servers may have been incorrectly tagged as spam. Please check your spam folders, mailing list moderation queues, and other relevant locations to ensure that any held mail gets found and released. If you sent mail through our servers, and it did not go through, you may wish to simply send it again. The rule has been cleared, and mail is flowing normally once again. You may wish to notify your clients and/or associates about this problem. As this is a global problem, you should consider checking all mail servers you have interaction with, worldwide, until this gets fixed. Happy new year. Glen Glen Barney IT Director AMS _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
