On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Matt Kettler wrote:

> At 10:01 AM 2/12/2005, Theodore Heise wrote:
> >When the spam in question arrived, several rules did not appear to
> >fire; specifically the two RBLs RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET and
> >RCVD_IN_XBL, as well as URIBL_OB_SURBL.
>
> Well, The URIBL and Spamcop changes are almost certainly due to
> time difference. Those two update *VERY* fast.
>
> In particular, the URIBL is actually a body rule, so header
> changes will not affect it. I'm confident time is the difference
> here. I bet if you run it again later you'll match more of the
> surbl URIBLs too.

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the response!  Your explanation makes sense, and I really
appreciate it.


> The XBL however, has the "notfirsthop" restriction. It won't match
> any messages that have no trusted relays. Based on the debug
> output, there were no trusted relays, thus XBL would not have
> matched for this reason.

I think I follow this for why it didn't match on initial processing,
but I still don't understand why it matched the message *after* I
saved it and ran it through spamassassin -t.

Ted

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