[BlueOnyx:04040] Re: AVSPAM PBL List

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Steffan,

> After the big avspam update im getting complaint from clients that emails
> that normal are not spam marked now suddenly being marked as spam Almost
> everythime the most score comes from spamhaus PBL

Spamhaus is currently tightening the thumb screws on a lot of ISPs to force 
them to get their acts together. About a month ago they added the entire 
network address range of O2 Germany to their blacklist and about ten days ago 
the entire network of Deutsche Telekom was added as well. Just to name a few, 
big ones, but others are hit as well. Typically if a message gets a 
SpamAssassin score from a single blacklist, then that's not enough to mark it 
as SPAM, but if there are some other indicators in it, then it may increase 
the score further to a point where it gets marked as SPAM.

If you want to disable RBL checks for now, do this:

Edit /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and find the line ...

skip_rbl_checks 0

... and change it to this:

skip_rbl_checks 1

Then save the changes and restart SPAMd:

/etc/init.d/spamassassin restart

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber