> SpamAssassin comes with a whole bunch of rules by default. > The best thing is to look at those rules and see what they're > doing. There's probably real documentation somewhere, but > there is so much example code that you may not need it.
I did not see much in the local.cf after a fresh installation. I went to http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php to generate my config file. > > > So to see if an ip or hostname is in the RBL it would make a request to the > > RBL servers > > on port 53 just like DNS queries? > > It's not just like regular DNS queries. It *is* a regular DNS > query. It doesn't go against any extra, third-party servers. > I believe SpamAssassin uses its own resolver code, but it > looks at /etc/resolv.conf just like anything else and uses > the nameserver (nameservers?) it finds in there. Thanks for the clear up. But one more question about this. If it users my DNS servers, how does it query the RBL servers and give them the hostname or ip? > > The corollary to this is that you will need to make sure your > existing DNS server can handle the load. But if you have only > 15 users, you should be OK on that. :-) I already checked with my hosting provider and they said its OK. Thanks, Dhaval
