Cannot disable RBL checks?????

[Martin Hepworth]

2009/9/8 Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

> on 9-8-2009 1:14 PM Michael Masse spake the following:
> > I'm trying to move RBL checks to the MTA level, but I can't seem to get
> MailScanner/spamassassin to stop checking RBL's.
> >
> > In MailScanner.conf I've removed the entries from "spam list = "
> >
> > In spam.assasssin.prefs.conf I've uncommented the "skip_rbl_checks 1"
> line
> >
> > I've restarted MailScanner
> >
> > and I'm still getting tons of email being tagged by either MailScanner or
> spamassassin with a bunch of BL_SPAMCOP_NET and all sorts of URIBL hits.
> The scores being assigned are different then anything in any MailScanner or
> Spamassassin config files that I can find.
> >
> > Here's a sample log line:
> >
> > Sep  8 15:06:34 mailgate1 MailScanner[2938]: Message n88JvaY4001810 from
> 189.65.225.20 (massimiliano.parri at accenture.com) to my.domain.com  is
> spam, SpamAssassin (cached, score=34.134, required 5, autolearn=spam,
> BAYES_99 3.50, BOTNET 5.00, DCC_CHECK 2.17, HELO_EQ_JP 1.24,
> HOST_MISMATCH_COM 0.31, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_04 2.04, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
> HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_1 0.00, MIME_HTML_ONLY 1.46, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET
> 1.96, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB 0.62, RCVD_IN_XBL 3.03, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10,
> SARE_HTML_A_BODY 0.74, SARE_HTML_IMG_ONLY 1.67, URIBL_AB_SURBL 1.86,
> URIBL_BLACK 1.96, URIBL_JP_SURBL 1.50, URIBL_OB_SURBL 1.50, URIBL_SBL 1.50,
> URIBL_SC_SURBL 0.47, URIBL_WS_SURBL 1.50)
> >
> > I've tried grepping the system for matches, but cannot find anything.
>  Where else do I need to tell MailScanner or Spamassassin to stop doing RBL
> checks?
> >
> In your spam.assassin.prefs.conf file, you add a score =0 line for the ones
> you don't want to check.
>
> Example;
>
> score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET  0
>
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> you'll see all these in the 20_dnsbl_tests.cf file in
/var/lib/spamassassin/<version>/updates_spamassassin_org directory

the URI RBL's test within the message body and are very useful at getting
stuff that other tests don't trap like image links and redirects. I'd leave
them in.


-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK
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