strange: logwatch mail on mailserver is marked as spam

Martin Hepworth martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Fri Jul 21 09:10:16 IST 2006


Chris Green wrote:
> The SA score is high because it's tripping over on the RBL scores. This 
> means that the IP address from which the mail came from is blacklisted - 
> which is odd if it's from the same machine (it would normally appear to 
> come from 127.0.0.1). Check to see if your machine is listening on this 
> IP. Perhaps you have restricted incoming mail to use IP addresses other 
> than 127.0.0.1?
> 
> Another option would be to whitelist the sender, but that spoils the 
> troubleshooting fun really!
> 
> 
> Götz Reinicke wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have no idea what's going wrong:
>>
>> I do get the logwatch report generated on my mailserver detected as 
>> spam by the mailservers mailscanner/SA installation :-)
>>
>> The server is RHEL 4 (2.6.9-kernel), MS 4.54.6, SA 3.1.3.
>>
>> The score for the report is e.g.
>>
>> spam,    SpamAssassin (nicht zwischen gespeichert, Wertung=17.019, 
>> benoetigt 3.6, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60, INFO_TLD 1.27, 
>> NO_REAL_NAME 0.96, URIBL_AB_SURBL 3.81, URIBL_JP_SURBL 4.09, 
>> URIBL_OB_SURBL 3.01, URIBL_SBL 1.64, URIBL_SC_SURBL 4.50,    
>> URIBL_WS_SURBL 2.14)
>>
>> Any ideas or what information may I provide?
>>
>> Thanks for any hint!!
> 
> 

The URIRBL scores here are looking at the message body, not the headers..

personally I remove all the emails 127.0.0.1 from any checks but 
anti-virus...

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

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