Topic: Damaged Spam Filter Installation...

[mmccarn]

I believe I have a damaged Spam Filter installtion -- if I "Enable" Spam Filter my SMTP server stops responding instantly.  

With Spam Filter turned off I can telnet to my server on port 25 and get "220 blah.blah.blah mailfront ESMTP" as expected

With Spam Filter turned on I get "Connected to...Escape Character is..." then nothing...

This behavior started when another sysadmin (helpfully?) added a couple of entries to the RBL list.  There is now one entry in the list that cannot be deleted from the web interface -- there are no errors to be seen, but the entry is still there when I'm done.

1) Can anyone tell me how to manually examine and either delete or clear out my existing RBL list?
or
2) Is there any easy way to completely remove all traces of the spam filter contrib and start over?
or
3) Should I use "Yum" to update everything first and see if that fixes it?

This is a new installation of SME 6.01-01.  "Spam Filter" was loaded using Jesper Knudsen's script dated August 10, 2004.  We have quite a bit of effort involved in setting up the user accounts, email forwarding, mailling lists, etc, so I'm hoping not to have to re-load -- unless there's an easy way to reload the users without also reloading the Spam FIlter configuration...

Thanks!

- Michael

[smeghead]

To check your RBL list run:

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration show smtpfront-qmail status

to remove the RBL list:

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration delprop smtpfront-qmail RBLList
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

HTH

[mmccarn]

Thanks, smeghead!

I did:

 /sbin/e-smith/db spamassassin_V3 get rbl.global

which showed my damaged RBL entry (which included a trailing space).

Then I did:

 /sbin/e-smith/db spamassassin_V3 delprop rbl.global "sbl.spamhaus.org "

to delete the damaged entry.

This didn't fix my problem - when I "Enable" the spam filter my SMTP server would no longer connect from off-site.

However, once I deleted the remaining RBL entries I was able to "Enable" the Spam Filter and still connect.

I may not have rbl checking, but at least I have spam filtering again!

Now my question is: What am I doing wrong that makes my SMTP server unresponsive when I enter any RBL sites into the "Global RBL" section of the Spam Filter configuration?