From what I can tell, you give a score of 0 to the check_rbl, check_rbl_txt, and check_rbl_envfrom rules you don't want to run. check_rbl_sub are based off of those rules. However, I have not been able to find the documentation for this.

From my testing, you would give __RCVD_IN_SBL_XBL a score of 0 to disable RCVD_IN_SBL. You would then need to give RCVD_IN_XBL a score of 0 to disable that lookup. From what I can tell, that list is checked twice based off of those rules.

Richard

Jeremy Fairbrass wrote:
A further question to this: if I want to disable one of those rules in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf, do I only need to give a score of 0 (in local.cf) to the rule with the check_rbl part, or do I need to give a score of 0 to each of the 'sub' rules?

For example, there are three sections to the Spamhaus lookups, as follows:

header __RCVD_IN_SBL_XBL eval:check_rbl('sblxbl', 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.')
describe __RCVD_IN_SBL_XBL Received via a relay in Spamhaus SBL+XBL
tflags __RCVD_IN_SBL_XBL net

header RCVD_IN_SBL  eval:check_rbl_sub('sblxbl', '127.0.0.2')
describe RCVD_IN_SBL  Received via a relay in Spamhaus SBL
tflags RCVD_IN_SBL  net

header RCVD_IN_XBL eval:check_rbl('sblxbl-lastexternal', 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.', '127.0.0.[456]')
describe RCVD_IN_XBL  Received via a relay in Spamhaus XBL
tflags RCVD_IN_XBL  net


So if I were wanting to disable them all, should I only need to give a 0 score to __RCVD_IN_SBL_XBL (ie. the first one), or do I need to give a 0 score to both RCVD_IN_SBL and RCVD_IN_XBL?

I guess what I'm really wanting to know is, is it possible to give a 0 score to any rule starting with a double-underscore (__SOMETHING) in order to disable it? As I know that double-underscore rules are kinda special and don't normally count for any score in the first place.

Thanks!



"Richard Frovarp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to go through and remove some of the DNSBL lookups that are being performed. I have found previous posts that state just set the meta rule to a score of 0 to disable. I have also found previous posts that state only these evals are performing lookups: check_rbl, check_rbl_txt and check_rbl_envfrom. And that check_rbl_sub do not perform a lookup, but use previous rules. What about check_rbl_accreditor?

Furthermore, looking in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf I see this:

header __RCVD_IN_NJABL eval:check_rbl('njabl', 'combined.njabl.org.') header RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL eval:check_rbl('njabl-lastexternal', 'combined.njabl.org.', '127.0.0.3') header __RCVD_IN_SORBS eval:check_rbl('sorbs', 'dnsbl.sorbs.net.') header RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL eval:check_rbl('sorbs-lastexternal', 'dnsbl.sorbs.net.', '127.0.0.10') header __RCVD_IN_SBL_XBL eval:check_rbl('sblxbl', 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.') header RCVD_IN_XBL eval:check_rbl('sblxbl-lastexternal', 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.', '127.0.0.[456]')

Am I missing something? It seems to me that all of the -lastexternal lines will perform duplicate DNS lookups from the previous line, perhaps just a little bit later. I of course run a caching name server, but it does seem to be an extra query and those lines could be changed into check_rbl_sub.

Thanks,

Richard







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