Quick question about rules in the email header.

[jols]

Hi,

I know that there are many more MailScanner rules than what typically shows up in the email header, but I wonder, what is logic of rules that display a zero (0.00) score?

For example, I am seeing a lot of these lately:

URIBL_BLOCKED 0.00

So, what does that mean? Does it mean that the incoming IP was indeed listed in this blacklist, but MailScanner did not place any importance on this listing? I am just guessing here. Overall I wish I could find some better documentation that explains this.

And what does this mean:

SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00

A rule with a negative zero? I've been puzzled about this for years at this point.

Thanks for any advice.

[Sarah]

You can find out more about any of the spamassassin tests by either googling for them or going to http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_3_x.html. The URIBL_BLOCKED appears to mean that your server has been blocked from the URIBL blacklist server.

Regarding the negative 0.00 score, I suspect that if you look in the actual SA rules file (these are in /var/lib/spamassassin/[version]/) you will find that it is -0.001.