RBL lists check in Exim/SpamAssassin .. aaarrrgh

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Hello,

I normally try to figure out anything I'm having troubles with without the use of this forum, but now I'm lost.

I'm running DA 1.24.2 with Exim 4.42 and SpamAssassin 2.63. Since the migration from a Windows-based machine running MDaemon I'm receiving a lot of spam e-mail every day. Looking at the log-files and mailheaders I concluded that the server doesn't check the mail in the most populair RBL blacklists. Mail that I sent to [email protected] will also be delivered without being filtered.

My question is simple, how can I configure Exim/SpamAssassin correctly in a way that it will check the RBL lists ?! There are many threads on this forum, but since I'm no expert in this area I'm not sure what is wrong or right. Much information is also old and based on the older 3.x Exim server.

Is there a simple how-to ? I found one from John in this page http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2402 but my exim.conf is looking quite differently. My exim.conf is full of commentary so I don't know which is which.

I hope somebody can help me. I'm getting nuts from al those penis-enlargers, pills, mortgage and other bull-**** e-mails ! ..

Greetings,

co
 
Check that exim.conf file of yours, and read those comments at the beginning.

Your version of exim.conf uses SpamBlocker, which I wrote.

Don't forget to add the domains you want RBL blocking turned on for, to /etc/virtual/use_rbl_domains, and don't forget to create a webpage to catch any possible false positives. Also remember to make the changes in the file from example.com to the name of your page.

Jeff
 
I had a problem with spamassassin needing a more current version of the Net-DNS module.

To test if SA is working as you expect, call spamassassin -D rbl=-3 then paste in a raw e-mail and hit ctrl-d.

If it's not doing RBL checks, the output should tell you why.
 
updated use_rbl_domains which did the trick.

Sorry, I didn't check the comments (=rtfm). Thanks for your help !
 
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