Hi Simon, On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:11 +0000, 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.
