On 2025-05-01 at 16:03:21 UTC-0400 (Thu, 01 May 2025 20:03:21 +0000)
Michael Grant via users <mgr...@grant.org>
is rumored to have said:
I'm seeing this error over and over in my logs over the last few
weeks:
spamd: check: dns_block_rule RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED hit,
creating /root/.spamassassin/dnsblock_bl.score.senderscore.com (This
means DNSBL blocked you due to too many queries. Set all affected
rules score to 0, or use "" to disable queries)
I did try to disable this in root's local.cf but the error continues.
Did you do that in the "global" config at
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf (or something like it with 'etc'
somewhere) or in root's user config in
/root/.spamassassin/{userprefs,local.cf,whatever} ? If it was the
latter, you need to move it to the global config.
OR, double-check your config line. it needs to precisely match the
quoted string. Note that if your mail server is using SpamAssassin via
the 'spamd' daemon, you should restart spamd after making configuration
changes. That is also true for milters like MIMEDefang or MailMunge
which have persistent daemons.
I am using my own proper bind DNS server running on my host to query,
not forwarding requests to Linode or google. My host is at linode
though so I wonder if the ip address of my server I'm in got flagged
some other network neighbor or if my spamd really did query too many
times. But after several weeks, the error persists.
Any ideas? Thanks.
My bet is on one of the issues implied above:
1. "dns_query_restriction deny bl.score.senderscore.com" is in the wrong
file
2. The config line has a typo
3. Some long-lived process is retaining a stale image of the config
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