MailScanner log entries

[Julian Field]

Think about what you are doing.

Outside world ---> qmail server ---> MailScanner server

Qmail is getting messages from all over the world, including places that
are listed in various RBLs.
But your MailScanner server is only getting mail from your qmail server,
which presumably isn't in any RBLs. So it won't report any.

At 22:14 03/07/2003, you wrote:
>What can I look for in the maillog to see if MailScanner is rejecting
>messages based on rbl scores?
>
>I have disabled rbl checking in spamassassin and enabled them in
>MailScanner, but don't see any evidence that they are working.
>
>All mail coming into my network is received by a qmail server. This qmail
>server then forwards the mail on to my MailScanner server.
>
>Normally, I run rblsmtpd on the qmail server which checks 6 or 7 different
>rbl sites. This works perfectly, and I can see many rejections per minute
>in the qmail logs, so I know I'm receiving mail from sites that should be
>rejected.
>
>So, on MailScanner, I entered the same list of rbl sites into
>'spam.lists.conf' file:
>
>############################################################
>dorkslayers                     orbs.dorkslayers.com.
>reynolds                        rmst.bl.reynolds.net.au.
>spamsites                       spamsites.relays.osirusoft.com.
>dnsrbl                          spam.dnsrbl.net.
>flowgoaway                      flowgoaway.com.
>njabl                           dnsbl.njabl.org.
>spamhaus                        sbl.spamhaus.org.
>spamcop                         bl.spamcop.net.
>############################################################
>
>and then I entered them into the 'spam list' space seperated:
>
>   dorkslayers reynolds spamsites dnsrbl flowgoaway njabl spamhaus spamcop
>
>
>I set the 'Spam Lists To Reach High Score' to '1' so it should work just
>like my qmail server for testing purposes.
>
>Then I shut down the rbl checking on the qmail server so that it would
>accept all messages, but in examining the MailScanner logs, I don't see
>any evidence that its rejecting anything based on rbl checks.
>
>a) What text should I be looking for in the logs to see rbl rejections
>b) Is there a way to see if MailScanner has experienced timeouts on any of
>the rbl sites I entered?
>c) Is there a way to see if MailScanner has disabled any of my rbl checks
>due to hitting the max number of timeouts?
>
>Thanks!

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