I came home after newyear and was flabbergasted as soon as I saw, I had no mail! With exception of my whitelist, which is bitter small. After reading Slashdot, I’ve noticed Spamassassin has a 2010 bug, dropping legit mails to spam or nowhere; depending on the account settings.

There are two ways to fix this by hand; to keep the ability to thwart mails coming from the future (after 2014 in this case):

Step 1: edit the ruleset file.

• With root privileges: Edit the file /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf
• Without root privileges: Add to the file ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

Step 2: find/add or change FH_DATE_PAST_20XX:


##{ FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20(1[4-9]|[2-9][0-9])/ [if-unset: 2006]
describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future.
##} FH_DATE_PAST_20XX


I wish variables could be used in regexps like these, like $year + 2 would be a nice start….

Alternative Step: Automatic update of rulesets

The Spamassassin rules can be updated automatically by executing the following command:

• any unix system: sa-update && /etc/init.d/spamassassin reload
• Directadmin: /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/packages/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5/sa-update && /etc/init.d/spamassassin reload
• admispconfig: /usr/local/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/bin/sa-update && /etc/init.d/spamassassin reload

Enjoy your mail without spam coming from the future!

02/jan/2010: Thanks go to mike for the even more-fine-grain regexp: 20(1[4-9]|[2-9][0-9])/

Admin Screen v1.04

Welcome to VisualSound, the WordPress (MU compatible) plug-in with built-in SoundCloud & VisualDreams support.

After searching for a long time on the Internet, I’ve not found any clue for any SoundCloud widget available; so I’ve started development of VisualSound; which is currently in use at some of the Wildchild pages. The applet has a natural interfacing towards SoundCloud & other multimedia providers.

Later support will include direct API support towards SoundCloud and VisualDreams/VisualMix.

The configuration screen allows easy access to a few applet options, available to the users convenience.

* (this SoundCloud widget should autostart!)

WARNING !!!

v1.10+: The standard soundcloud URL can be used as command like {soundcloud play url} and {soundcloud autoplay url}.

pre-v1.0: This plug-in has been simplified with commands.

• Double check your previous posts/page syntax if you upgrade from pre-v1.0!
• Disable/Re-enable plug-in for full support to upgrade from pre-v1.0!
• For Soundcloud: use [keyword] soundcloud and [provider] soundcloud in the configuration screen!
• If your plug-in does not work, try as [provider] beta
  

Old syntax: [visualsound username mode location] – New syntax: [keyword mode username location]

Newest Syntax: [keyword mode url] where keyword is soundcloud for SoundCloud!

Syntax line:

[keyword mode username location]