"spam" with negative score. What settings do I need to change?

Chris W. Parker cparker at SWATGEAR.COM
Wed Oct 19 19:33:29 IST 2005


Julian Field <mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
    on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:23 AM said:

> Edit /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/RBLs.pm.
> Right at the bottom of the file, edit the last few lines so that they
> look like this:
[snip]
> The new bit is the JKF 3/10/2005 bit. This gets around a Perl bug, the
> same one has happened several times before. This should fix it for
> you. 
[snip]
>     perl -c RBLs.pm
> That shouldn't output anything much at all. If that is okay, then do a
> "service MailScanner restart".

I made the change you suggested, checked RBLs.pm for syntax errors, and
restarted MailScanner but the logs are still being cut off*. Here is an
example of one that just happened.

Oct 19 11:24:29 localhost MailScanner[8077]: New Batch: Scanning 1
messages, 6385 bytes
Oct 19 11:24:29 localhost MailScanner[8077]: Spam Checks: Starting
Oct 19 11:24:29 localhost MailScanner[8077]: RBL checks: j9JIOG0p008056
found in SORBS-DNSBL, SORBS-SPAM
Oct 19 11:24:32 localhost MailScanner[8077]: Message j9JIOG0p008056 from
199.181.134.25 (bouncesb at q.go.com) to swatgear.com is
Oct 19 11:24:32 localhost MailScanner[8077]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
messages
Oct 19 11:24:32 localhost MailScanner[8077]: Spam Actions: message
j9JIOG0p008056 actions are deliver


Chris.

* That is what the change to RBLs.pm was supposed to fix right?

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