I have verified that those two servers are not in the blackhost list - I performed a DNS lookup on the inverse addresses as described at mail-abusers.org. ie, for my inbound relay server x, let's say ip is h.i.j.k, I looked up k.j.i.h.blackholes.mail-abusers.org and got:
can't find k.j.i.h.blackholes.mail-abuse.org.: Non-existent host/domain You're right, since I'm controlling my inbound relay servers, I can just turn off the spam filters and I should be safe, but I'd like to be confident that I don't need to front james servers with inbound mail relay boxes at all. Or even consider using james servers as those inbound relay boxes. Thanks again. -Brad Serge Knystautas wrote: > > Have you checked that servers x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y are not in the > spamming blacklist? That'd be my first and only guess reading over your > email. You are looking at the appropriate logs to see what's happening > with the messages. > > Aside from checking if those servers are in the blacklist, I would even > urge that you comment out the blacklists. You are only allowing > incoming mail from 2 servers to be processed (as I understand it)... the > blacklist filters only check the address of the remote connection, so > since you're already dumping messages from IP addresses aside from those > 2, there's no need to also check the blacklists. > -- > Serge Knystautas > Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites > http://www.lokitech.com/ > > Brad Wallace wrote: > > My blackhole filters, as setup in the default config file, appear to be > > deciding that everything is spam. I've configured my allowed inbound > > servers thus: > > > > <mailet match="RemoteAddrNotInNetwork=x.x.x.x,y.y.y.y" > > class="ToProcessor"> > > <processor> spam </processor> > > </mailet> > > > > where x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y. are inbound mail relay servers which deliver > > mail to James. This seems to work fine if I comment out the blackhole > > filters. With any of the three blackhole filters enabled (not commented > > out), all mail gets processes as spam according to the spoolmanager > > logfile. I have the following DNS entry: > > > > <dnsserver> > > <servers> > > <server>a.a.a.a</server> > > </servers> > > <authoritative>false</authoritative> > > </dnsserver> > > > > > > I've verified using nslookup from the command line on the machine > > running james that this DNS server is reachable and functional and that > > neither of my inbound relay servers (x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y) are on any of > > the three blackhole lists. I can retrieve information about > > mail-abuse.org from this DNS server, so I believe the DNS side is fine. > > > > > > Here's the first of my three blackhole list entries (any one of which > > seems to be sufficient for all mail to be classified as spam): > > > > <mailet match="InSpammerBlacklist=blackholes.mail-abuse.org" > > class="ToProcessor"> > > <processor> spam </processor> > > <notice> Rejected - see http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/ > > </notice> > > </mailet> > > > > here's what I see in the spoolmanager log: > > > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [INFO ] (spoolmanager): ==== Begin > > processing mail Mail1019254184039-0 ==== > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [INFO ] (spoolmanager): Processing > > Mail1019254184039-0 through root > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.root): Servicing > > mail: Mail1019254184039-0 > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.root): Checking > > Mail1019254184039-0 with org.apache.james.transport.matchers.All@55e55f > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.root): Servicing > > Mail1019254184039-0 by Postmaster aliasing mailet > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.root): Checking > > Mail1019254184039-0 with > > org.apache.james.transport.matchers.RelayLimit@45c859 > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.root): Checking > > Mail1019254184039-0 with > > org.apache.james.transport.matchers.InSpammerBlacklist@2c1e6b > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.root): Servicing > > Mail1019254184039-0 by ToProcessor Mailet > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [INFO ] (spoolmanager): ==== Begin > > processing mail Mail1019254184039-0-!917652054 ==== > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [INFO ] (spoolmanager): Processing > > Mail1019254184039-0-!917652054 through spam > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.spam): Servicing > > mail: Mail1019254184039-0-!917652054 > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.spam): Checking > > Mail1019254184039-0-!917652054 with > > org.apache.james.transport.matchers.All@5b05b2 > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [DEBUG ] (spoolmanager.spam): Servicing > > Mail1019254184039-0-!917652054 by ToRepository Mailet > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [INFO ] (spoolmanager): ==== Removed from > > spool mail Mail1019254184039-0-!917652054 ==== > > Fri Apr 19 22:09:44 GMT 2002 [INFO ] (spoolmanager): ==== Removed from > > spool mail Mail1019254184039-0-!917652054 ==== > > > > > > and the mail ends up in my spam folder. > > > > I'm running James 2.0a2 on solaris under java-1.3.1_02. > > > > > > Please let me know if I can provide more details. Thanks much. > > > > > > -Brad > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
