spamhaus-XBL

[Scott Silva]

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Jason wrote:
> 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
>
In MailScanner.conf look for the line that starts;
Spam List =
and remove spamhaus-XBL.
Spamassassin will still score these lists, but MAilScanner will not call
them spam just for being there.


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