RBL checks and score count ..

[Julian Field]

At 16:49 22/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:00:43 +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn
><raymond at PROLOCATION.NET> wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >> >You can do the RBL checking withing SA, then score is added. BE sure
> >> >Net::DNS is installed (Perl).
> >> >
> >> I have Net::DNS installed.  How can I do the RBL checking within SA and
>use
> >> the MA RBLs?  How to configure MailScanner.conf file to add scores from
>MA
> >> and SA?
> >
> >Look in your spamassassin pref file inside the MS dir. there you tell if
> >you do RBL with SA or not. then you can add new ones if you like like i
> >posted on the list.
>
>I set the skip_rbl_checks to "1" in the "spam.assassin.prefs.conf" file and
>I've re-started MS.  However, I still can see in the maillog that
>SpamAssassin does RBL check ..( on my both mail relay machines).  Snapshot
>of the log below show entry for SpamAssassin (... spam, SBL+XBL, AHBL,
>spamcop.net, SpamAssassin)
>
>skip_rbl_checks 1
>
>
>Mar 22 11:44:01 mailgw01 MailScanner[14866]: RBL checks: i2MGhIil014486
>found in SBL+XBL, AHBL, spamcop.net
>  Mar 22 11:44:13 mailgw01 MailScanner[14866]: Message i2MGhIil014486 from
>64.124.100.105 (vi-61862314-975_105691730 at b.defrkd.com) to  bbb.com is
>spam, SBL+XBL, AHBL, spamcop.net, SpamAssassin (score=6.3, required 4.9,
>BAYES_80 2.86, CLICK_BELOW 0.31, FREE_TRIAL 0.11, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS 0.89,
>HTML_50_60 0.10, HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE 0.10, HTML_TAG_EXISTS_TBODY 0.10,
>HTML_WEB_BUGS 0.10, MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.10, NO_OBLIGATION 0.40, OFFER 0.20,
>RISK_FREE 0.01, SAVE_MONEY 0.32, SEE_FOR_YOURSELF 0.68)

That log section shows that SpamAssassin is not checking RBLs, but
MailScanner is. If you want to switch off MailScanner's RBL checks, just
set the list to be empty, i.e. set
Spam List =
in MailScanner.conf.
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