spamhaus-XBL

[Randal, Phil]

You've hit the nail right on the head with that one.

The best way to use the Spamhaus XBL list is in spamassassin, not
MailScanner, with a fairly low score (I wouldn't give it more than 1.5).
Two many false positives from PCs in dial-up/ADSL IP address pools.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Jason
> Sent: 15 March 2005 04:14
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: spamhaus-XBL
>
> Hi,
>
>     I'm using mailscanner-4.38.10-1, with sendmail and
> spamassassin. When a client send an email (not spam) with
> outlook express through our server, the receipient received
> the message regarded as spam. And the reason is "spamhaus-XBL".
>
>     The IP of mail server is certainly not in the
> "spamhaus-XBL" list, but the client may be, since it's a
> dynamic IP. And we certainly have no control of what ip was
> assigned to us by ISP. So, from my point of view, the ip of
> the client should not be considered as spam host of not,
> right? But this does not seem to be case.
>
>
> The following is the header of the received emal :
>
> Return-Path: <sender at newhonest.com>
> Received: from edp008 ([219.132.219.6])
>  (authenticated bits=0)
>  by mail.newhonest.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id
> j2F3flTp027281  for <receipient at newhonest.com>; Tue, 15 Mar
> 2005 11:41:50 +0800
> Message-ID: <008601c52910$ee521720$4001a8c0 at edp008>
> From: "sender" sender at newhonest.com
> To: "receipient" receipient at newhonest.com
> Subject: {Spam?} test2 ,this is a external email
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:41:49 +0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-type: multipart/report; boundary="======19077==36171======"
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
> X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
> X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, spamhaus-XBL, SpamAssassin
> (score=1.529,  required 5, AWL -2.93, BAYES_20 -1.95,
> HTML_90_100 0.02,  HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, MIME_BASE64_TEXT 0.30,
> MIME_HTML_MOSTLY 1.02,  RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 1.99, RCVD_IN_XBL 3.08)
> X-MailScanner-SpamScore: 1
> X-MailScanner-From: sender at newhonest.com
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