SpamAssassin RBL details

[David Hooton]

Thankyou!

Regards,

David Hooton
Senior Partner
Platform Hosting
www.platformhosting.com


Daniel Kleinsinger wrote:
> 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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