Probably this known problem, bug open for over a year: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6649#c19
The initial comments make it sound like a simple problem of not correctly escaping rules containing binary data. While it is actually a much more complicated problem related to the same thing. On 12/17, Eric Krona wrote: > From time to time when sa-update is running, I get errors in the output. > > Like today I got: > Illegal octal digit '8' ignored at > /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/BodyRuleBaseExtractor.pm > line 1083, <$fh> line 1097. > re2c: error: line 170, column 2: unterminated string constant (missing ") > command 're2c -i -b -o scanner2.c scanner2.re' failed: exit 1 > > What is the reason for it, are some rules poorly written, or do I > miss some library or what could be the problem? > > /eric > -- "You shall know the truth, and it shall make you odd." -- Flannery O'Connor http://www.ChaosReigns.com