Scoring DNSRBL from spam.lists.conf?

[Julian Field]

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Craig Daters wrote:

> It was my belief that using the DNSRBL stuff in spam.lists.conf meant 
> that messages who's origin IP, etc was found to exist on these lists 
> where scored and thus contributed to the final spam score of a 
> particular message?
>
> This past weekend, we had a Comcast user send mail to several of our 
> users using some fake from addresses which ended in our domain, i.e.:
>
> info at westpress.com (legitimate)
> register at westpress.com (fake)
> so on, and so on.
>
> I went to www.DNSstuff.com to see which lists would have this person 
> listed and entered some of the ones that looked not to be overly 
> aggressive. This is where I learned that any message which appears on 
> a list results is it automatically being flagged as spam. I have 
> looked in MailScanner.conf, the only option I find that allow some 
> control over how messages are flagged is the "Spam Lists To Reach High 
> Score" option (which I have set to "3" by the way). Is this the 
> correct behavior for the "Spam List" option?

There is now also a "Spam Lists To Be Spam" option which says how many 
hits you have to get with different dnsbl's before the message is marked 
as spam. The behaviour before this option was added is the same as 
setting "Spam Lists To Be Spam = 1".
But otherwise your description is correct.

>
> And secondly, is there a way to apply scores to these instead?

Yes, use the SpamAssassin settings to apply different scores to 
different dnsbl's.

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