Mailscanner RBL checks

[Mikael Syska]

Scott Silva wrote:
> Vlad Mazek spake the following on 8/9/2007 9:59 AM:
>   
>> I'm sorry I am just not following; my mailscanner.cf
>> <http://mailscanner.cf> has only one line:
>>
>> dns_available yes
>>
>> Yet, it seems to be querying the external RBL's:
>> SpamAssassin (not cached, score= 16.885, required 5, autolearn=disabled,
>> FH_RELAY_NODNS 1.25, HELO_EQ_IP_ADDR 1.12, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
>> HTML_OBFUSCATE_05_10 0.57, MIME_HTML_ONLY 1.67, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET
>> 2.19, RCVD_IN_PBL 0.51, RDNS_NONE 0.10, URIBL_BLACK 1.96, URIBL_JP_SURBL
>> 2.86, URIBL_OB_SURBL 2.13, URIBL_SC_SURBL 2.52
>>
>> My question is simply where/what is telling SpamAssassin to query all
>> these RBLs because my MailScanner.cf doesn't list any RBLs to be called
>> (line is commented out completely)
>>     
> Spamassassin has several tests it does all by itself that are indepentent of
> mailscanner. Spamassassin tests rbl's and gives a score that is added
> together. When you use rbl's in mailscanner they are just flagged as spam if
> they hit, independent of how reliable a rbl might be.
>
> As you were told in the last mail, if you do not want rbl tests in
> spamassassin, you have to add a line for each one in mailscanner.cf.
> As an example, if you didn't want to test for RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET
> you add the following line;
> score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 0
>
> Does this clear things up a little more?
>   
Little off-topic:
Can't the lookups be completely disabled, so its possible to avoid the 
the DNS query ?

As I understand SA, it will still make the lookup even if the score is 0 
... or am I wrong here ?

// ouT