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List:       spamassassin-devel
Subject:    [Bug 5076]  New: Missing trimming of backslashes before # signs
From:       bugzilla-daemon () issues ! apache ! org
Date:       2006-08-31 16:55:18
Message-ID: 5076.dev () spamassassin ! apache ! org
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http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5076

           Summary: Missing trimming of backslashes before # signs
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: 3.1.4
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5
         Component: Libraries
        AssignedTo: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
        ReportedBy: mail@jonaspasche.com


man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf says:

"if the # character is to be used as part of a rule or configuration option, it
must be escaped with a backslash. i.e.: \#"

However, if you use \#, the backslash gets not stripped. For example:

I want a subject of:
Subject: ###SPAM### <original subject>

Thus I configure:
rewrite_header Subject \#\#\#SPAM\#\#\#

But now my subject reads:
Subject: \#\#\#SPAM\#\#\# <original subject>

This bug has been identified on the mailing list before:

   Using a # character in a spam report
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/83869

   Header Tagging with # instead of *
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/64667

Attached is a one-liner I wrote to work around this bug.



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