RBL checks not being done?

[Julian Field]

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At 16:31 16/09/2004, you wrote:
>I've wondered if MS decided not to
>do RBL checks because the message already contained MS headers from the
>initial scan on the production system.  Is that perhaps the reason MS is
>not doing RBL checks even though I've configured it to do them?

No, MailScanner never uses the contents of the message to decide to avoid
doing any checks. The only time the message content is used is to avoid
multiple signatures on clean messages.

>Note that the first report from the prod system shows SA is getting RBL
>hits.  The second report (test system) shows no RBL hits from SA or MS.
>I do have the surbl stuff installed on both systems so the second report
>does show those.  Perhaps this message isn't a good example -- I'm not
>certain.  But I can say that I never get a MS RBL hit on the test
>system.  I've triple checked the configs and I don't understand why.
>The config differences are fairly simple.  On the prod systems in
>MailScanner.conf I set "Spam List =" with an empty list.  On the test
>system this setting points to a ruleset which contains...

Have you tried
         Debug = yes
         Debug SpamAssassin = yes
and seeing what the SA output on the system shows? This should do a few DNS
checks to prove that its DNS is working, and then tell you what it is
looking up.

>The other change is in /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf.  On
>the test system I have "skip_rbl_checks 1" and on the prod system I have
>"skip_rbl_checks 0".

Errr... won't have have rather a large effect on the SA checks on the test
system?
It won't affect the MS checks though.
--
Julian Field
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