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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by James Grant <ja...@lightbox.org> on 2008/12/09 01:09:37 UTC
Inconsistent RBL checks
Hi all, I've run into a weird situation where spamassassin will (seemingly
randomly) only do certain RBL checks.
The following are all the same spam message (1.txt), executed ~30 seconds
apart:
$ spamc -y <1.txt
AWL,BAYES_50,DRUGS_ANXIETY,DRUGS_ANXIETY_EREC,DRUGS_ERECTILE,FR_ALMOST_VIAG2,FUZZY_VPILL,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RDNS_DYNAMIC,URI_HEX
$ spamc -y <1.txt
AWL,BAYES_50,DRUGS_ANXIETY,DRUGS_ANXIETY_EREC,DRUGS_ERECTILE,FR_ALMOST_VIAG2,FUZZY_VPILL,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RCVD_IN_XBL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,URI_HEX
$ spamc -y <1.txt
AWL,BAYES_50,DRUGS_ANXIETY,DRUGS_ANXIETY_EREC,DRUGS_ERECTILE,FR_ALMOST_VIAG2,FUZZY_VPILL,HTML_MESSAGE,RDNS_DYNAMIC,URI_HEX
I've done it with spamd in debug mode and there's never any warnings or
errors about it not doing certain checks, it seems to just leave them out.
Any thoughts on why this might happen?
Cheers,
James
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Re: Inconsistent RBL checks
Posted by Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>.
On 08.12.08 19:09, James Grant wrote:
> Hi all, I've run into a weird situation where spamassassin will (seemingly
> randomly) only do certain RBL checks.
[...]
> I've done it with spamd in debug mode and there's never any warnings or
> errors about it not doing certain checks, it seems to just leave them out.
>
> Any thoughts on why this might happen?
did you play with rbl_timeout?
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Re: Inconsistent RBL checks
Posted by "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <sp...@dostech.ca>.
On 08/12/2008 7:09 PM, James Grant wrote:
> Hi all, I've run into a weird situation where spamassassin will (seemingly
> randomly) only do certain RBL checks.
>
> The following are all the same spam message (1.txt), executed ~30 seconds
> apart:
>
> $ spamc -y <1.txt
> AWL,BAYES_50,DRUGS_ANXIETY,DRUGS_ANXIETY_EREC,DRUGS_ERECTILE,FR_ALMOST_VIAG2,FUZZY_VPILL,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RDNS_DYNAMIC,URI_HEX
>
> $ spamc -y <1.txt
> AWL,BAYES_50,DRUGS_ANXIETY,DRUGS_ANXIETY_EREC,DRUGS_ERECTILE,FR_ALMOST_VIAG2,FUZZY_VPILL,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RCVD_IN_XBL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,URI_HEX
>
> $ spamc -y <1.txt
> AWL,BAYES_50,DRUGS_ANXIETY,DRUGS_ANXIETY_EREC,DRUGS_ERECTILE,FR_ALMOST_VIAG2,FUZZY_VPILL,HTML_MESSAGE,RDNS_DYNAMIC,URI_HEX
>
> I've done it with spamd in debug mode and there's never any warnings or
> errors about it not doing certain checks, it seems to just leave them out.
>
> Any thoughts on why this might happen?
Assuming the results were obtained in that order, my first guess would
be an overloaded DNS recursive server and/or a congested Internet
connection.
What's the spamd DNS related timing debug output say? What are you
using for DNS service for your spamd machine?
Daryl