Yes, I would like to understand why that's failing as well, but I don't 
quite know what else to tell you.  Can you share the conf for all your 
processors?... this kinda feels like a 'mundane detail' kinda problem 
(for those who've seen the movie Office Space).
-- 
Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites
http://www.lokitech.com/

Brad Wallace wrote:
> 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


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