URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.

Randal, Phil prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk
Thu Nov 22 17:36:08 GMT 2007


Oh, sorry for any confusion.

I was of course referring to SA RBL checks.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of donald.dawson at bakerbotts.com
> Sent: 22 November 2007 17:29
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: RE: URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.
> 
> Phil,
> 
> Thank you for the tip - I'll implement this now.
> 
> Should I comment out or leave uncommented the following line in
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf?
> 
> skip_rbl_checks 1
> 
> The notes imply that SA checking RBLs may be redundant to MS's RBL
> checks.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donald
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Randal,
> Phil
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 11:25 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.
> 
> 
> In /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf add
> 
> score __RCVD_IN_ZEN 0.0
> score RCVD_IN_SBL 0.0
> score RCVD_IN_XBL 0.0
> score RCVD_IN_PBL 0.0
> score URIBL_SBL 0.0
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> 
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> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> > Of donald.dawson at bakerbotts.com
> > Sent: 22 November 2007 17:15
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: RE: URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.
> > 
> > Thank you for the answer - I thought I had turned off 
> > spamhaus checking
> > - where is that option configured?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
> Behalf Of Steve
> > Freegard
> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:17 AM
> > To: MailScanner discussion
> > Subject: Re: URIBL_SBL timeouts running MS in debug mode.
> > 
> > 
> > Alex Broens wrote:
> > > What happens if you do:
> > > 
> > > host -tA 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Reply should be
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > hehehe - that gave me a good laugh ;-)
> > 
> > I think Alex meant - reply should be something like:
> > 
> > [root at speedy ~]# host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org
> > 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.10
> > 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.2
> > 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.4
> > 
> > If you get a timeout instead, then you've been firewalled 
> by Spamhaus 
> > (see http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html) 
> and you'll 
> > need to purchase a datafeed from them or stop querying the lists.
> > 
> > I believe the SpamAssassin folks are going to be disabling 
> > the Spamhaus 
> > tests by default in the next major release due to this policy (see 
> > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5641).
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Steve.
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