RBL checks and score count ..

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> When I added new RBLs to MailScanner (SBL+XBL, etc.)I've noticed that even
> if the score is lower than required the messages is actually marked as spam.
> So, if the RBL checks is found in Spamhaus or in the other server than the
> score is not taken into account??  Is the score only working with the
> SpamAssassin services?
>
> I'm very happy with SBL+XBL but I wonder why the messages with the
> SpamCheck lower than required are tagged as spam now.

> 62.21.65.101 (fufyad at adelphia.net) to mailgw02.com is spam, SBL+XBL, DSBL,
> SpamAssassin (score=3.389, required 4.9, BAYES_44 -0.00, BIZ_TLD 0.10,
> HTML_MESSAGE 0.10, MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT 3.03, NO_REAL_NAME 0.16)
> Mar 22 01:26:55 mailgw02 MailScanner[31251]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
> messages

You can do the RBL checking withing SA, then score is added. BE sure
Net::DNS is installed (Perl).

Bye,
Raymond.