SpamAssassin RBL details

[Daniel Kleinsinger]

SA runs RBL checks on all the IPs in the received headers except for
hosts on "trusted networks".  In case you were wondering, Mailscanner's
built-in RBL checks only check the connecting IP and thus aren't
appropriate for your config (unless Julian's changed them recently).
You should be fine using SA's RBL checks.

Daniel

David Hooton wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a question about how the SpamAssassin RBL's work.
>
> We have an SMTP proxy running in front of MailScanner on our mail
> server, I am wanting to turn RBL checking on, but seeing as all
> connections are seen as arriving from 127.0.0.1 by MailScanner I'm not
> sure if the RBL's will work.
>
> Can someone explain to me how the RBL checks are performed?  Does it
> look at all the relaying IP's in the headers or does it use the
> connecting IP and therefore only see 127.0.0.1?
>
> All help appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>
> David Hooton
> Senior Partner
> Platform Hosting
> www.platformhosting.com
>
>
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