<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">>> Does this mean I'm not doing any RBL checking at all now? Or will SA<br><br>so with <br> <br>Spam List = SPAMEATINGMONKEY,CBL,MANITU,spamhaus-ZEN<br>and obviously set up rules here<br><br>spam.lists.conf:SPAMEATINGMONKEY bl.spameatingmonkey.net<br><br>my objective is i don't want mails scanned that are clearly spam say FAIL more than one GOOD rbl ie.<br><br>Spam Lists To Reach High Score = 2,, in other words i thought the defaults are way too conservative//<br><br>my question though is "does this in fact cause MailScanner to NOT let SA spend time analysing these Mails ?".<br><br>OR<br><br>"would it be preferable to let postfix itself reject RBL'ed mails ?"<br><br>also for <br>[gelgin@gfee MailScanner]$ grep skip_rbl_checks *<br>spam.assassin.prefs.conf:#
skip_rbl_checks 1<br><br>is 1 the default or do i uncomment if i <span style="font-weight: bold;">don't</span> want checks ? unlike amavis i am not getting a good feel that RBL checks are really happening...<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail">>> still do that?<br>> <br>> Yes, SA will still do those checks.<br>> <br>> That's the current recommended practice - using MailScanner to check<br>> RBLs is only advised in cases where you don't wish to use<br>> SpamAssassin but do wish to check multiple RBLs. <br><br>I've always done it the other way (MailScanner does the checks) but times change. To reverse it, is it as simple as changing these from MailScanner.conf<br> Spam Lists To Be Spam = 1<br> Spam List = spamhaus-ZEN (or whatever one has in there)<br>and in the
spam.assassin.prefs.conf setting skip_rbl_checks to 0 (zero)?<br><br>Will the "Spam Lists To Be Spam" setting matter if spamassassin is doing the checks instead of MailScanner? If so, should that become zero as well?<br><br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>