On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:

I am editing the local, thanks.

sa-update should not touch your local configuration file. Are you saying it is doing so?

Letting them know is fine and all, except the mail is still getting through my systems. I have noticed this on several of my MS gateways. The emails are blatant spam. This is for hundreds of emails. DNSWL thinks just because one yahoo/gmail/hotmail account is clean; all are. Does not make sense to me.

What upstream DNS are you using for your SA?

DNSWL has usage limits absent subscription, and if you're using a busy public DNS (e.g. Google's public DNS servers) for your queries then DNSWL may be returning HI for _all_ queries regardless of how the sender is actually classified in their database.

Does running your SA against a local caching DNS server that doesn't forward to an upstream DNS server change the behavior for these messages?

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On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:54 PM, John Hardin wrote:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:

It seems nightly the rule is re-enabled.

Don't edit the files that are deep in the SpamAssassin working directories, 
they will get overwritten with updates as you have seen.

If you want to disable a rule, set its score to zero in your _local_ 
configuration file, typically under /etc/mail/spamassassin.

If you're getting spams from hosts in DNSWL HI, please let the DNSWL people 
know so they can deal with it. Either the source MTA needs to be cleaned up, or 
their listing demoted.

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