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From: Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending death of mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:09:02
Message-Id: 14628.80.15.3.36.1186131889.squirrel@mail.rofes.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Pending death of mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Fri, August 3, 2007 2:07 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > Heya,
3 >
4 > The upstream rules_du_jour folk have had issues over the last few months
5 > with DDoS and other attacks. Additionally, the nature of their original
6 > update mechanism causes a lot of traffic.
7 >
8 > Everybody that is using rules_du_jour is strongly encouraged to move to
9 > using the sa-update mechanism that is included with recent versions of
10 > SpamAssassin.
11 >
12 > Here is a guide to using SARE rulesets with sa-update:
13 > http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt
14 >
15 > mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour will be p.masked on August 4th, and
16 > removed one month thereafter.
17 >
18
19 Do you have references for this security issues? Maybe a bug should be
20 opened to decide if we release a maskglsa for this one.
21
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23 Pierre-Yves Rofes
24 Gentoo Linux Security Team
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending death of mail-filter/spamassassin-ruledujour Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>