RBL checks and score count ..

Magda Hewryk mhewryk at SYMCOR.COM
Mon Mar 22 17:35:39 GMT 2004


Hi,


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:06:52 +0000, Julian Field
<mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>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.

Thanks.  Actually I want MS to do rbl check, not a SA.
The log below still lists SpamAssassin.

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,

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