Bug in OpenBSD spamd

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 17 11:31:28 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:43:49PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote:
> There is a bug in OpenBSD's spamd.  The value for the whitelist  
> expiration that can be set with the arguments to spamd is not used by  
> spamlogd.  It uses the hard-coded value of 36 days in grey.h.  As a  
> result if you think you are changing the time a whitelist entry is  
> retained, you are actually not.  It will always be 36 days.  The easiest 
> way to correct this is to add an argument to spamlogd with the desired 
> value and overwrite the default.

Have you reported this up-stream to the OpenBSD folks?

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