Amavisd Not Scoring from Soft blacklist

[jason hirsh]

On Jun 20, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Gary V wrote:

> On 6/20/11, jason hirsh wrote:
> 
>>>> Thank you .. I did not understand what was i seeing
>>>> 
>>>> from what I have been seeing , am I correct that i can not  hard
>>>> blacklist
>>>> under amavisd unless I use mysql databases?
>>>> 
>>>> again I apologize for my ignorance
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> No need at all to apologize. I admit AM:BOOST is not obvious. Other
>>> settings besides w/b list can additionally affect the AM:BOOST score,
>>> that's why it's given a somewhat generic name.
>>> 
>>> You can do hard blacklisting.
>>> 
>>> search for:
>>> ENVELOPE SENDER WHITELISTING / BLACKLISTING
>>> in:
>>> 
>>> http://www200.pair.com/mecham/amavisd/2.6.6/amavisd.conf-sample
>>> 
>>> For example:
>>> @blacklist_sender_maps = ( ['.example.org', 'sender at example.net'] );
>> 
>> this is how i got into soft black list as the hard did not not work
>> 
>> @blacklist_sender_maps = (['captcurrent at hotmail.com', '.example.net']);
>> 
>> is in my amavisd.conf
>> and I get this in mail log
>> 
>> Jun 20 08:00:24 tuna amavis[95945]: (95945-01) lookup
>> [blacklist_sender<captcurrent at hotmail.com>,blacklist_sender] => undef,
>> "captcurrent at hotmail.com" does not match
>> 
>>> 
>>> or read from an external file:
>>> @blacklist_sender_maps = read_hash("$MYHOME/black.lst");
>>> 
> 
> Works fine for me. Are you sure that this log entry is the one that
> was produced after you made the change? Is it possible you have
> @blacklist_sender_maps listed twice in amavisd.conf? If so, the last
> one wins.
> 
> This is my test:
> 
> @blacklist_sender_maps = (['garyv at example.com', '.example.net']);
> 
> Jun 20 19:46:05 filter amavis[3983]: (03983-03-8) lookup
> [blacklist_sender<garyv at example.com>,blacklist_sender] => true,
> "garyv at example.com" matches, result="1",
> matching_key="garyv at example.com"

That was it....  I had the sample regexp blacklist map still in the conf
guess I am back to trying to learn regexp

Thanks for the education


> 
> -- 
> Gary V