RBL checks and score count ..

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> 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)

The entry's you see are MailScanner RBL check values. If SA if doing the
RBL checking you will see things like RCVD_IN_AHBL. If you see them before
the SA score lines they are added by MS...

Bye,
Raymond.