MailScanner log entries

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 3 21:57:41 IST 2003


I don't believe the headers as much as SpamAssassin does :-)

At 21:49 03/07/2003, you wrote:
>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.
> > >

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