Am 07.02.2013 08:52, schrieb Lutz Petersen:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we have real problems with SA spam scoring of some hosts that that are in 
> list.dnswl.org
> with a hight trust level (RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI). This in SA gives a negative 
> score of -5.0.
> The description at the dnswl website says:
> 
> Recommended Usage:  Skip spam filtering for medium and high ranked IPs.       
> These are trusted
>                     to send spam rarely enough that they are not worth 
> filtering.
> 
> But there are cases where this gives completely nonsense and let definitely 
> spam mails
> all go through and become not spam-tagged. I'll give an example:
> 
> Host 'mail.mobile.de'. This host (multiple ip) receives mail from external 
> sources and
> forwards them to other mail-addresses. They seem to accept any mails from any 
> ip, equal
> if dynamic ips or from known high level spam sources. I'll highly believe 
> that they
> themselves never originate spam. But they forward mails from other sources 
> that are
> 100% spam. Because mail.mobile.de is listed with DNSWL_HI all these mails get 
> an dnswl
> negateive score of -5.0 - means that a lot of spam mails they forward get 
> through with
> no Spam-tags.
> 
> I don't wan't to generally reduce the scores of the RCVD_IN_DNSWL rules. But 
> how to handle
> those cases? Obviously this listing gives a lot of 'false negatives'. The 
> only way I see
> seems to manually neutral this -5.0 scoring for all forwarded mails with a 
> local rule; but
> then all mails that are originated by themselves would become tagged as spam 
> too. Does
> anyone have a solution for this ?
> 
> Lutz Petersen
> 
> 
> 

the best way might be, inform
i.e http://www.dnswl.org for delisting such hosts
this helps anybody and bounces the problem to the orig source

Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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