Jules Yasuna wrote:
Configuration (maybe more than you care to see, sorry)
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1) platform: kubuntu 8.04
2) SA version: 3.2.4
3) options:
add_header spam BB score=_SCORE_
report_safe 0
lock_method flock
4) using qmail -> procmail -> spamc -> spamd
ps ea | grep spam shows ...
/usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir
--username spamd -s /usr/local/bb/spamassassin/spamd.log -d
--pidfile=/usr/local/bb/spamassassin/spamd.pid
this snippit is from /etc/procmailrc
:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* < 256000
| spamc -F /usr/local/bb/spamassassin/bb.spamc.conf
cat bb.spamc.conf shows
-u spamd
-s 1000000
--headers
SA has been working great! Very few spam messages get through. Then,
we made ONE change
to the machine. We turned off BIND, and just resolve to the ISP name
servers. After that, lots
and lots of spam gets through ? Not everything, just a lot more than
when BIND was running locally
So, instead of having BIND running locally, and forwarding to the name
servers provided by our ISP,
we turned off running BIND, and placed the ISP name servers addresses
in /etc/resolv.conf. Just
for clarity, here is what we did to /etc/resolv.conf
# nameserver 192.168.1.17 comment out our localhost, since bind is
no longer running
domain angels.bookus-boulet.com
nameserver 66.189.0.29
nameserver 66.189.0.30
So, really that is all we did. After that, lot's of spam gets through.
Just to check, we turned our nameserver back on (and adjusted
/etc/resolv.conf accordingly), and once
again SAworks great !
So, please tell me what I am doing wrong here
Thanks in advance ... jules
I'm wondering if your DNS servers are running slow or timing out. Have
you tried running SA in debug mode and looking for DNS related delays or
issues?
--Blaine
