https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8278
Bug ID: 8278
Summary: RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_* rules fail badly
Product: Spamassassin
Version: 4.0.0
Hardware: PC
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Rules
Assignee: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
Reporter: corbet...@lwn.net
Target Milestone: Undefined
My site recently hit the query limit imposed by Validity on its DNSBL resources
earlier this year. The result was that *every* email examined by SpamAssassin
triggered both RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED and RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE. That
subtracted five points from the score of every message, with the result that
vast amounts of spam got through.
It seems that the Validity DNSBL tests should properly catch the failure case,
reported as:
28.88.79.45.sa-trusted.bondedsender.org. 10 IN TXT "Excessive Number of
Queries | https://knowledge.validity.com/hc/en-us/articles/20961730681243";
...and not adjust the message's score.
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