All messages getting marked as Spam

[Jules Field]

I have just published an update to MailScanner which resolves this problem.

Thanks to Steve Freegard for his invaluable help!

Cheers,
Jules.

On 23/03/2011 06:41, Alex Broens wrote:
> On 2011-03-23 1:47, Sumit Bhattacharjee wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have been using MailScanner for several months now and it has been 
>> working
>> very well.  However, since yesterday, almost all inbound messages are
>> getting marked marked as Spam.  I have the SpamAssassin threshold set 
>> to 6
>> (default I believe), and following are a couple of examples of the spam
>> report (email from different domains/IP's):
>>
>> X-cospringsitcom-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (not cached,
>>   score=7.983, required 6, FREEMAIL_FROM 0.00, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00,
>>   MIME_QP_LONG_LINE 0.00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE -0.00,
>>   T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL 0.01, URIBL_BLACK 1.77, URIBL_RED 0.00,
>>   URIBL_RHS_DOB 0.28, URIBL_SEM_FRESH 0.81, URIBL_SEM_FRESH_10 1.01,
>>   URIBL_SEM_FRESH_15 4.10)
>> X-cospringsitcom-MailScanner-SpamScore: 7
>>
>> X-cospringsitcom-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (not cached,
>>   score=9.235, required 6, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE -0.00,
>>   URIBL_BLACK 1.77, URIBL_RED 0.00, URIBL_RHS_DOB 0.28, URIBL_SEM 1.26,
>>   URIBL_SEM_FRESH 0.81, URIBL_SEM_FRESH_10 1.01,
>>   URIBL_SEM_FRESH_15 4.10, URIBL_SEM_RED 0.00)
>> X-cospringsitcom-MailScanner-SpamScore: 9
>>
>> The commonality that I am seeing is that the URIBL_BLACK  is 1.77 for 
>> almost
>> all messages and URIBL_SEM_FRESH_15 is 4.10.  But I am not sure what has
>> changed (nothing should have).
>>
>> I'd much appreciate any debugging steps recommended by experts on 
>> this list.
>
> either ALL your mail has blacklisted URLs in it (highly unlikely) or 
> you have a DNS issue. Are you using a local resolver or your ISP's 
> recursor?

Jules

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