[Mimedefang] Can't get surbl to work inside MD but works fine in spamassassin -D

[Chris Gauch]

The main thing one must keep in mind when using MIMEDefang is that MD has
direct access to the SpamAssassin perl modules, so MD has a most of the
control over SA tests, message modification, and configuration. 

If you were using some other config, like a local procmail/SpamAssassin
combo, the local.cf file handles all of the SA configuration for
discarding/rejecting/modifying email messages classified by SA.  MIMEDefang,
on the other hand, handles the actual modification of the email messages
itself, so all of that rewrite subject and reporting stuff must be
configured through the mimedefang-filter file, a key difference that can
throw a curve at those who are accustomed to other SA configs.

The $SALocalTestsOnly was clearly meant to follow the "skip_rbl_checks"
convention in the SA local.cf file, setting either vars to 0 enables the
rbl/network tests. 

- Chris    

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Ole Craig
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 2:59 PM
To: Matthew Schumacher
Cc: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Can't get surbl to work inside MD but works fine
in spamassassin -D

On 07/01/04 at 10:40, 'twas brillig and Matthew Schumacher scrobe:
> Ole Craig wrote:
> > 
> > 	The SURBL plugin is a "network test". What's the value of
> > $SADoNetTests in your MD filter file? If it's 0 (which is the default
> > in the sample filter) then SpamAssassin won't do network tests,
> > including SURBL.
> > 
> > 		Ole
> 
> Thanks for the reply,
> 
> Where is the documentation for this?  I don't see that var in any of the 
> filters I have nor does it return anything in google.  I thought that 
> all of the spamassassin config was in the SA config files.


	Urk. Sorry, that's a local permutation, which I've used for so
long it's second nature. The one you want is $SALocalTestsOnly, which
if set to 1 will *disable* network tests. Set it to 0 (before
calling spam_assassin_init()->compile_now(1), if you have that set in
filter_initialize) and you should be OK.

	Sorry about that,
		Ole
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