RBL in SpamAssassin?

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Thu May 13 17:12:13 IST 2004


max

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Max Kipness wrote:
>>Defaults are in /usr/local/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf
>
>
> Ok, I found this. So I can directly modify these, right?
>

better to change anything you need in spamassassin.prefs.conf so
anyupdate on SA doesn't overwrite the changes

changing the scores to 0 (zero) will disable that RBL.

>
>>the surbl plugin is useful to catch in-message crud.
>
>
> Where can I get this?
>
>

http://www.surbl.org/

>>I run all (both) my RBL's in SA so it's adds to the score and isn't a
>
> blanket block flag.
>
> But I still have the question of why each message isn't tagged in the
> score section by Spamassassin, when on the same message it's found to be
> in the RBL by MailScanner RBL checks.

dunno - are you sure that RBL is on in SA?

>
>
>>Are you running a local name server...that can make a difference even
>
> if it's caching only.
>
> Yes, I have a local DNS server, and on the MailScanner box I have
> Net::DNS installed and functioning according to SpamAssassin debug test.
>
> Thanks,
> Max

good.


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