[Slackbuilds-users] Spamassassin from SBo - broken DNS RBL filtering?

[Robby Workman]

On Sat, 20 May 2017 20:27:01 +0100
Sebastian Arcus <s.arcus at open-t.co.uk> wrote:

> On 17/05/17 18:17, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
> > 
> > On 17/05/17 16:31, Franzen wrote:  
> >> On 17.05.2017 16:18, Sebastian Arcus wrote:  
> >>> I have been chasing this issue on-and-off for months, and spent a
> >>> lot of time the last few days on it. I run several Slackware
> >>> servers with Spamassassin on them, and I  noticed a while ago
> >>> that some don't use DNS blocklists.  
> >>
> >> Maybe your are using the providers nameserver, beside a lot
> >> others, so the providers nameserver itself may be blacklistet
> >> because of too much reqeuests, and therfore gets no(or only
> >> sometimes) answers from the dns blackalist severs. This also
> >> happens if you are using google's dns 8.8.8.8  
> > 
> > Sorry, I should have mentioned it in the original post. I am
> > running Bind locally in caching/recursive mode. Also, if that would
> > have been the problem, the queries get flagged as blocked by
> > SpamAssassin in the message report - so it is quite soon obvious
> > what is going on. I've had this in the past, before configuring
> > Bind. What I am describing is a silent issue - no errors, no
> > messages about queries being blocked. And that is why it took me a
> > while to realise it was a problem, because if there is no mention
> > in the spam report of dns rbl's - the assumption would be that the
> > dns queries returned nothing - not that they are not working
> > altogether. Only by passing the same known spam message through
> > SpamAssassin on different servers did I realise that the dns rbl's
> > weren't functional.  
> 
> A follow up on this. I've tested the issue on some more machines, and
> it seems that it is the Spamassassin version which is the problem. On
> none of the machines I had with 3.4.1 dns rbl's were working. I have
> one server with 3.4.0 and dns rbl's *are* working on it. I have
> upgraded the 7 servers I had with 3.4.1 to 4.0.0 unstable and they
> all work fine now. They were all Slackware 14.2-current in various
> states of "freshness" - up to one year old. So if you have
> Spamassassin 3.4.1 installed on a Slackware box, you might want to
> check that the dns rbl's are really working - as there were no error
> messages anywhere on mine. Oh, and for the sake of clarity, I kept
> all the configs as they were - so it wasn't a config problem.


Good catch nonetheless :-)

-RW
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