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RBL's - Can I use them to give a score rather than block?

Posted: 15 Feb 2023, 12:24
by DigitalEssence
Hi,

I'm getting a lot of spam coming in for my customers and would like to use an RBL to reduce this.

The trouble is that when I do use an RBL eg Spamcop, barracuda or Spamhaus, my customers own IP addresses are sometimes listed and get blocked from sending mail which isn't great.

Is there any way that I can re-enable the RBL's but instead of them blocking senders outright, they give a spam score instead?

And also, my queries to URIBL are blocked. I know the reason why but I've read that it's not really worth the time and effort in fixing this.

What are other people's thoughts on this?

Re: RBL's - Can I use them to give a score rather than block?

Posted: 17 Feb 2023, 22:31
by Sarah
If you want to give spamassassin scores to different RBLs, you would need to do this within SpamAssassin, not the MailScanner Front-End. I believe the RBL tests are defined in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004006/updates_spamassassin_org/20_dnsbl_tests.cf, and you can modify the scores of those tests by adding scores to your own .cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin as outlined in this article:
https://support.configserver.com/en/kno ... assin-test