[email protected] wrote:

EMail to a mailing list that is mirrored on a local newsgroup in dNews from
1 particular user is bounced on a regular basis.


Can you get the user in question to send a similar email to us please ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and then we can examine the headers and try and figure out why it's giving a false positive.

        ChrisP.

Admin receives this notice:

The following LOCAL POST was blocked by the spam rules
    line 1: Message contains executable programs You either have a local
spammer who needs to be found Or your spam rules, filter.dat etc may need
adjusting Examine dnews.in and dnews.log for more details line 1: Message
contains executable programs Set spam_noreport true in dnews.conf to stop
these emails First 2000 characters of spam item follows


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I look at the original message and there's no attachment in sight. The only
thing I can think of is maybe the filter sees this in the headers:

X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by news.wolfcrews.com
id j0IGroC8500391


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My exe filter is simply:

# cat /usr/admin/news_spam_filter
if (attach("*.exe,*.com,*.zip,*.pif,*.scr,*.vbs,*.bat,*.jav*")) reject
"Message contains executable programs"
accept "This message is ok"
#


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The message makes it's way around the mailing list itself with no problem,
just the news server rejecting it.







Jeff


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