Understanding blacklisting

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi Nigel

best place to to this is (I find) Spamassassin.

enable the RBL's in SA and they will merely add to the SA score, rather
than acting as a complete blacklist when used in MailScanner.conf

Looking at the docs the setting SHOULD do as you summize, but given
recent traffic on this list I'd suggest 'somethings amiss'

Julian - can you have a look at this setting and confirm/deny it works
and if it does work how it should work.

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


Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> I see incoming mail from various places where the origin is found in just
> one blacklist (usually SORBS-DNSBL) and so MailScanner deletes it, but
> reading the wiki articles implies you can set a threshold so that the sender
> has to appear in 'n' blacklists before being given the chop - the closest
> setting I can see for this is "Spam Lists To Reach High Score", which I
> currently have set to 5 (it was 3) but this doesn't seem to have any effect
> and reading further, the description of the setting implies that it just
> defines whether messages go straight to 'high scoring spam'.
>
> Can I just confirm whether I am missing the point here or whether I have not
> configured something as well as I could. Do I just drop using SORBS-DNSBL??
>
> Thanks
>
> Nigel Kendrick
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