Bug 6428 - FRT_SYMBOL and TVD_FUZZY_SYMBOL match too much
Summary: FRT_SYMBOL and TVD_FUZZY_SYMBOL match too much
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2.5
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Undefined
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2010-05-04 05:38 UTC by Gertjan van Oosten
Modified: 2011-10-29 04:07 UTC (History)
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Description Gertjan van Oosten 2010-05-04 05:38:19 UTC 
The rules FRT_SYMBOL and TVD_FUZZY_SYMBOL match the perfectly valid Dutch word
"symbool". The default scoring for these rules gives a message containing this word a whopping 4.6 points!
 *  2.9 FRT_SYMBOL BODY: ReplaceTags: Symbol
 *  1.7 TVD_FUZZY_SYMBOL BODY: TVD_FUZZY_SYMBOL

I checked my SPAM archive (dating back to 2003, over 400.000 SPAM messages) and the first, last and only time I received SPAM legitimately matching these rules was in July 2008(!) in *one* message refererring to a stock ticker "sym bol".
The rule expressions need to be updated to no longer match "symbool".

The version of the rules that I run:
# UPDATE version 895075
Comment 1 Kevin A. McGrail 2011-10-29 04:07:56 UTC 
TVD_FUZZY_SYMBOL & FRT_SYMBOL currently have scores of zero.