Solved The query to Validity was blocked.

[twv]

Anybody else getting this in their email headers with spamassassin enabled?

0.0 RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED RBL: ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to Validity was blocked. See https://knowledge.validity.com/hc/en-us/articles/20961730681243 for more information.

The validity page says to sign up for an account and give them the server’s IP address, which I did, but no change in the results. I suspect it’s because the relevant IP address is the DNS server I’m querying, not my own server.

 

[Ohm J]

this is normally, because if you not config in spamassassin, it will use the server resolver.

add this to "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf"

dns_server 127.0.0.1

 

[twv]

Thanks. I did that, but I’m still seeing the message in email headers.

I sent Validity a support request and will update this thread if I get a response.

 

[twv]

Found the problem -- I was using dnsmasq.

“Dnsmasq should not be used by SpamAssassin since it can only forward to other DNS servers.”

CachingNameserver - SPAMASSASSIN - Apache Software Foundation

cwiki.apache.org