blacklists and archiving

David Vosburgh vosburgh at dalsemi.com
Mon Apr 23 18:33:25 IST 2007


I know it's Monday, but can anyone provide some insight into this 
problem?  Thanks.

Dave

David Vosburgh wrote:
> I have setup mail archiving to both a file and another email address for 
> all mail from a particular domain.  That much has worked fine for some 
> time now.  I recently got a request to blacklist one address in that 
> domain, so I put an entry in the spam.blacklists.rules file.  The next 
> time a message came through from that address, rather than being 
> blacklisted, the message was delivered and archived as normal (and yes I 
> did restart MailScanner).  Is this a matter of precedence?  That is, 
> does archiving take precedence over blacklisting? Or is this a 
> misconfiguration on my part, or <gasp> a bug?
> 
> Here's the MailScanner -v output:
> 
> # MailScanner -v
> Running on
> Linux artesia 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:21:39 CDT 2006 i686 
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> This is CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
> 
> This is MailScanner version 4.55.10
> Module versions are:
> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
> 1.14    Archive::Zip
> 1.03    Carp
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 1.00    DirHandle
> 1.05    Fcntl
> 2.73    File::Basename
> 2.08    File::Copy
> 2.01    FileHandle
> 1.06    File::Path
> 0.14    File::Temp
> 0.90    Filesys::Df
> 1.35    HTML::Entities
> 3.54    HTML::Parser
> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.21    IO
> 1.10    IO::File
> 1.123   IO::Pipe
> 1.71    Mail::Header
> 3.05    MIME::Base64
> 5.420   MIME::Decoder
> 5.420   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.420   MIME::Head
> 5.420   MIME::Parser
> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.420   MIME::Tools
> 0.10    Net::CIDR
> 1.08    POSIX
> 1.77    Socket
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.17    Sys::Syslog
> 1.86    Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
> Optional module versions are:
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 1.814   DB_File
> 1.12    DBD::SQLite
> 1.50    DBI
> 1.15    Digest
> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
> 2.36    Digest::MD5
> 2.10    Digest::SHA1
> 0.44    Inline
> 0.17    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.001004        Mail::SpamAssassin
> 1.999001        Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.20    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.57    Net::DNS
> 0.31    Net::LDAP
> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 2.56    Test::Harness
> 0.47    Test::Simple
> 1.95    Text::Balanced
> 1.35    URI
> 
> Dave




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