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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by "Carl R. Friend" <cr...@rcn.com> on 2004/10/31 16:41:03 UTC

Problems with URI DNS tests in spamd?

   G'day.

   Has anyone else noticed problems with the DNS-based URI tests in
SpamAssassin 3.0.[01]?  Specifically, running on Solaris 9, Perl 5.8.5,
and SpamAssassin 3.0.0 and .1 that the "urirhssub" and "uridnsbl" tests
are not even being called from spamd.  However, they work fine from a
direct spamassassin invocation.

   To wit, here's the test results from a spam that contained a link
to a well known spamvertised "destination".  First the spamassassin
run from the command line:

bash-2.05$ cat foo93 | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1-crf_3.0.1_20041031_00 (2004-10-22) 
        on t1
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=9.6 required=4.5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO,URIBL_CACM,
        URIBL_SBL,URIBL_WS_SURBL autolearn=disabled 
        version=3.0.0-rc2-crf_3.0.0_rc2_20040807_00

   That's just fine, and is as it should be -- flagged as spam.  Now
here's the run through spamc/spamd:

bash-2.05$ cat foo93 | /usr/local/bin/spamc -d spamassassin
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1-crf_3.0.1_20041031_00 (2004-10-22) 
        on t1
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=4.5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO 
        autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1-crf_3.0.1_20041031_00

   To see if the tests were even being tried, I sniffed on port 53
on my DNS server and never saw requests for the various URIBLs.

   Ideas?

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