Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

[Andy Jezierski]

Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/22/2005 11:30:46 AM:

> Jay Levitt wrote:
> > I have SA 3.01 running under mimedefang 2.43 with sendmail 8.13.1.  At
> > some point, SA seems to stop doing lookups on the DNSBLs; spam gets
> > through that is listed in multiple BLs; if I check manually with
> > spamassassin -t, it detects the BL entry, even if I run it moments after
> > the spam was received.
> > I don't see anything obvious in the logs.  What can I do to troubleshoot
> > this?
>
> Make sure MIMEDefang hasn't created a new /etc/mail/sa-mimedefang.cf on
> an upgrade.
>
> That happened to my server a while back -- We were just using
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, and upgraded MD, and MD saw there was
> no sa-mimedefang.cf, so it created it with the defaults -- and the
> defaults disable DNSBLs.
>
> --
> Kelson Vibber
> SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>

Could this be the same problem as the discussion in the "Spammer Anti-SURBL tactic" thread?

Andy