MailScanner log entries

[Paul]

Worth adding too that SpamAssassin, however, digs deeper and checks (I
believe) all the hosts that have handled the incoming messages, so
disabling it has a big effect.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: 03 July 2003 21:26
Subject: Re: MailScanner log entries


> 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.
> >