While investigating why a couple of emails took over 500 seconds to
scan, I found a bunch of these errors in the log file:
spamd[7586]: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x8e,
with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.002004/70_sare_specific_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_ne
t/200605280300.cf, rule SARE_SPEC_REPL_OBFU1, line 1.
(3,752 of them to be exact)
They are being reported for these rules:
SARE_SPEC_REPL_OBFU1
SARE_SPEC_REPL_OBFU2
SARE_SPEC_REPL_OBFU4
SARE_SPEC_REPL_OBFU5
SARE_SPEC_REPL_OBFU6
A bit of Googling for the error message indicates that this is a problem
with UTF-8 in Perl. Is there still a problem with this ruleset? I
tried to go to rulesemporium.com to make sure I have the most recent
version of the file (5/28/2006?), but the site seems to be
non-responsive at the moment.
$ spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.2.4
running on Perl version 5.8.5
--
Bowie
