URIBL won't work

[Matt Kettler]

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Arnold Jäger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get URI-Checking working with SA 3.0.3.
> 
> spamassassin -x -D -p /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint
> shows:

<snip>
> ................
> 
> but I can't see any URIBL_... in the log.

That's because --lint uses a test message which has no URIs in it. No uris means
no calls to the uribl tests, and no hits.

--lint is NOT intended to be at test spamassassin's features. It is intended to
verify SA can read your config files, NOTHING more.

The fact that SA uses a short test message when linting is purely a byproduct of
how they chose to force a test of the config parser. It was just easier to dump
a fake test message in than to work around it so the config parser could run
without a message.

Don't ever expect any hits at all from a --lint, those which do appear are
entirely accidental.


> 
> If I try spamassassin -D <message
> with an appropriate message, I get for example:
<snip>
> but not a single URIBL in the log.

Erm, what do your mean "log".. you mean the debug output? or a logfile in
/var/log? invoking the spamassassin command line won't log anything in /var/log.

> 
> seems that test and real checking use different config, but why?

They don't, you're just thinking lint does something it does not.

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