UPDATE 6/29/2011: If you run sa-update now, it should pick up 1140482 or later and fix this issue.

Due to a bug in the rule auto-promotion system, SEM rules were again mistakenly pushed to the active rules, causing a flood of unexpected DNS queries to this service provider.  A very similar issue happened back in March 2011. Upstream spamassassin needs to make an emergency sa-update rule update to correct this situation. Meanwhile, all spamassassin admins should mitigate this issue by adding the following workaround to their local.cf then restarting their spamd.

Today was the official release of Apache Spamassassin 3.3.2. The primary purpose of this minor release is to fix compatibility with perl-5.12+, but numerous other bugs were fixed. I made these RPM’s for EL5 and EL6 that I personally have been using in production for weeks. Fedora 14 and 15 updates should be hitting mirrors shortly.

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