(OT) Mail got blocked because of SORBS/DYNABLOCK

MKlinke mklinke at axsi.com
Thu Apr 1 14:09:06 UTC 2004


On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:27, you wrote:
 
> Thanks, but unfortunately, the spamassasin is not mine. It's on yet
> another mail server. I found out about this because I have a mail
> account on that other mail server, and everytime my friend sends me
> email there, he got tagged. This concerns me because he's going to
> use that mail account as a businness account. If this happens in
> general with most SA, it's not good.
>
> RDB

If you look closely at the njabl.org FAQ entry you'll see the last bit 
shows that the "penalty" for each "infraction type" varies from a 
whopping "3.0" for several tests down to a much lower "0.62" for the 
NJABL_DUL test. Since it's only a sample put out by njabl.org the 
"penalty" used by the mail servers you are dealing could be all over 
the map. Most likely, though, it will only add a fraction of the 
overall spam "score" by spamassassin. Usually there is a provision to 
add a particular email address to a "whitelist" which will cause a 
very negative score to be added to the tally for the email. Has your 
friend contacted the postmaster at the server?

Looking at your original note you mentioned that the email from your 
friend was "blocked".  Since spamassassin doesn't block mail in any 
fashion it may be that the receiving mail server is using a dnsbl in 
conjunction with his MTA. This type of "blocking", however, usually 
concerns the "connecting" system rather than the "originating" system 
for a particular piece of email even if they use the very same dnsbl.

Regards,  Mike Klinke





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