Re: More spam than developer mail

[wayne <wayne@midwestcs.com>]

In <[🔎] 1041017454.626.71.camel@altfrangg.fortytwo.ch> Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> writes:

> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 19:31, wayne wrote:
> 
> > The various black lists that spamassassin uses also seems to help a
> > bunch.  I don't know if the spamassassin for these lists enable them
> > or not.
> 
> I've had to lower the scores on many of the blacklists, as some mails
> will trigger 3 of them or so...

Ugh.

I'm not sure why, but I spaced off mentioning that spamassassin
doesn't handle blacklists quite right and I've patched my EvalTests.pl
to work for my setup.  Before I made the patch, I got a lot of false
positives from the blacklists also.


See: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904


I don't know if the debian listserver has a simple enough mail
environment for my patch to be useful, but here it is:

--- EvalTests.pm.~2~	2002-10-04 07:54:16.000000000 -0500
+++ EvalTests.pm	2002-12-17 18:50:54.000000000 -0600
@@ -852,7 +852,14 @@
   $self->load_resolver();
 
   dbg("Got the following IPs: ".join(", ", @ips), "rbl", -3);
-  if ($#ips > 1) {
+
+  # fix up for our secondary MX
+  # 206.222.212.218 is bald.unpythonic.net
+  if ( $#ips > 1 && $ips[0] == "206.222.212.218" ) {
+	 shift @ips;
+    }
+    
+  if ($#ips > 0) {
     # If the set name is foo-lastN, check only the Received header that is
     # N hops from the final MTA (where 0 only checks the final Received
     # header).
@@ -865,7 +872,8 @@
       @ips = ($ips[$#ips - $1]);
     }
     else {
-      @ips = @ips[$#ips-$checklast .. $#ips]; # only check the originating IPs
+#      @ips = @ips[$#ips-$checklast .. $#ips]; # only check the originating IPs
+      @ips = @ips[$checklast]; # only check the receiving IPs
     }
   }
   dbg("But only inspecting the following IPs: ".join(", ", @ips), "rbl", -3);