Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-18 Thread Mark Crean
Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] sorry if this is a dumb question, but your email implies spam-assassin does DNS look-ups to filter out spam - which is not what I thought after giving spam assassin the once-over check-out. Is it so? What level of effectiveness does it have? And can it actually fi

Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-18 Thread Robert S
"Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Don't know if this is of any help, but a lot of DNS tests seem to timeout: > Think I've got it fixed. Changed settings in /etc/resolv.conf. Might give djbdns a go sometime. I think our broadband router is doing funny thi

pre-download filtering (was Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups)

2005-11-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:58:07PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > sorry if this is a dumb question, but your email implies spam-assassin > does DNS look-ups to filter out spam - which is not what I thought > after giving spam assassin the once-over check-out. Is it so? What > level of effectiveness doe

Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-16 Thread Adam Hardy
Robert S on 15/11/05 20:49, wrote: Don't know if this is of any help, but a lot of DNS tests seem to timeout: debug: RBL: success for 9 of 17 queries debug: DNS: timeout for NO_DNS_FOR_FROM after 14 seconds debug: DNS: timeout for bsp-untrusted after 14 seconds debug: DNS: timeout for bsp-firstt

Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-16 Thread Mathias Tauber
Don't know if this is of any help, but a lot of DNS tests seem to timeout: debug: RBL: success for 9 of 17 queries debug: DNS: timeout for NO_DNS_FOR_FROM after 14 seconds debug: DNS: timeout for bsp-untrusted after 14 seconds debug: DNS: timeout for bsp-firsttrusted after 14 seconds debug: DNS:

Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-15 Thread Robert S
Don't know if this is of any help, but a lot of DNS tests seem to timeout: debug: RBL: success for 9 of 17 queries debug: DNS: timeout for NO_DNS_FOR_FROM after 14 seconds debug: DNS: timeout for bsp-untrusted after 14 seconds debug: DNS: timeout for bsp-firsttrusted after 14 seconds debug: DNS: t

Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-15 Thread Robert S
> Is this package installed? > > libnet-dns-perl > Yes - it is installed: # apt-get install libnet-dns-perl -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done libnet-dns-perl is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Any other ide

Re: Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-15 Thread Mathias Tauber
How do I get my Sarge box to do these DNS lookups? Have I not installed something? Is this package installed? libnet-dns-perl Regards Mathias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Spamassassin not doing blacklist lookups

2005-11-15 Thread Robert S
I have installed the default installation of spamassassin on sarge. I have recently compared headers from a spam message that was filtered by my sarge installation (and missed as spam) with the same message filtered by a Gentoo server (that was correctly identified as spam, running a default spama