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Proposed title of this feature request

Please upgrade version of SpamAssassin shipped with RHEL 7 to latest version from upstream (SpamAssassin 3.4.1)

What is the nature and description of the request?

Customer would like us to update the SpamAssassin package shipped with RHEL 7 to version 3.4.1

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

Will include justification in private comment

Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies and which release would they like to target (i.e. RHEL5, RHEL6)?

No - they have simply requested this be implemented ASAP

Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any additional input?

No

List any affected packages or components.

SpamAssassin

Makes sense to change the requested version to 3.4.2 now.

Fedora 29 includes a SRPM:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/29/Everything/source/tree/Packages/s/spamassassin-3.4.2-2.fc29.src.rpm

I've rebuilt and installed this successfully on CentOS 7.5. The one hitch is that the systemd unit file for 3.4.0 assumes Type=forking and -d is passed to the spamd executable. The Fedora 29 RPM for 3.4.2 assumes Type=simple so the daemonize option in /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin must be removed. I suggest changing the spec file to remove the (replace) from /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin.

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.