Fedora 12 MailScanner 477.10 RBL checks Not working

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 22:27:04 GMT 2011


You REALLY shouldn't use that many BLs in mailscanner itself, since it is
inefficient. One or two is ok, complemented by one or more that you really
trust for rejecting in the MTA. The rest you should use in spamassassin,
which will do the lookups in parallell, not serialised as in MS.
If one email sender would trigger two BLs, with the current config, all that
would happen is that your lowscoring spam action would trigger... Mail from
suspect sources would still be accepted (MS cannot reject, since it isn't an
MTA)... I'd recommend lowering the hits needed to be highscoring spam, so
that that action get triggered instead... While you have a think on what BL
to use where.

Cheers
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-- Glenn

Den 31 jan 2011 20.18, "Adam Laye" <postal.janitor at gmail.com> skrev:

Fedora 12
MailScanner 4.77.10
SpamAssassin 3.2.5
Postfix 2.6.2

I have scoured Google and Mailing list archives but cannot pin point the
issue. I believe  MailScanner Should be checking RBLs but can find not
refference to them in my Log files. Additionally Server clearly listed are
able to send to my servers.

MailScanner config

%etc-dir% = /etc/MailScanner
%report-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/reports/en
%rules-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/rules
Spam List Definitions =%etc-dir%/spam.lists.conf  ( I have also tried using
the direct path)
Virus Scanner Definitions = %etc-dir%/virus.scanners.conf
Spam Checks = yes
Spam List = SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP SORBS-SOCKS SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP
SORBS-WEB SORBS-SPAM SORBS-BLOCK SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL

Spam Domain List = SORBS-BADCONF SORBS-NOMAIL
Spam Lists To Be Spam = 1
Spam Lists To Reach High Score = 3
Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules
Is Definitely Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.blacklist.rules
Read IP Address From Received Header = 2

MailScanner rocks! Thank you for any assitance you can offer, Please let me
know if additional info should be posted.

Adam




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