Debugging RBL's

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Mon Apr 26 19:45:56 IST 2004


Gareth Campling wrote:
> Think this has been asked before but unsure, what's the best way to
> debug RBL checking, as I have one server
> That seems to be ignoring rbl's from MailScanner (they also run on
> spamassasin which is working and scoring them)
>
> But would like MailScanner to use them so I can turn off spamassasins
> checking, if I run MailScanner in debug mode it
> Does not error and passes DNS checks
>
> So any light u can shed on this would be superb.

Is that server not your first MTA? MailScanners RBL checks only checks
the server it received the mail from but SA checks all the received
headers. Maybe that's why it works in SA but not in MS.

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