Hi Simon,
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:11 +, Simon Hogg wrote:
> Folks, we've been using SpamAssassin as part of MailScanner for just
> over a year with no problems at all.
>
> However, output (plain ASCII text files of a few k in size) from out
> student admin system, which is mailed to users of the system, is now
> being flagged as spam. Below are the relevant bits of a header.
>
> The content of the file(?), the file name, the file size, the sender
> (shown as 'x' here, but is a valid user), the recipient (a valid user),
> would appear to be ok. I can't provide a copy of the file content for
> obvious reasons (personal details), which is not much help, although its
> plain ASCII text, it is mostly in upper case and consists of just a few
> lines of text, ie names, course codes, grades etc.
>
> We have the threshold set at 6 for spam, but this scores 100.00 on IE_VULN.
>
> Can it be that the content of the file is being mistaken for something
> else? I've found no reference to IE_VULN in any of the FAQ's, mail
> archives, google (except one reference to the same score), hence my
> posting to this list.
Yes - it's definitely being mistaken. IE_VULN was a ruleset added to
MailScanner's spam.assassin.prefs.conf to catch a nasty IE bug a while
back. It's dead and buried now - so you can safely remove the rule.
Cheers,
Steve.