SpamAssassin "bogus virus" ruleset

[Kevin Spicer]

Don't know if anyone else is using this, but I've noticed that it picks
up several MailScanner headers / report characteristics.  This was
causing some list mail to be flagged as spam, and was also causing
reports generated by MailScanner to be marked as Spam (until I
whitelisted localhost - I have no users on my MS box so hadn't deemed
that necessary before).

It seems that the name of the ruleset is somewhat misleading as it
doesn't detect bogus virus warnings as one might imagine (such as the
numerous 'new virus warning' chain letters), it attempts to detect all
virus warnings.  Whilst I understand their reasons (and I really dont
want to start that discussion again!) I wanted to bring it to the
attention of the list.

Those with more patience might care to simply assign zero scores to
those tests which mention MailScanner, I've just removed the ruleset.

BTW it specifically mentions (in the comments) a number of domains
belonging to folks that I know post here regularly.
(Theres also one comment which refers to MailScanner as "a real PITA")




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