How to check that Spamhaus is being used

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#1 Tue, 02/09/2016 - 04:28
Dim Git

How to check that Spamhaus is being used

Hi Peeps,

Sorry to bring this topic up yet again (its a bit like a bad soap opera).

Spam is beginning to be a bit more of a problem again. I have greylisting enabled and Spamassassin running as spamc.

Some particularly vulgar emails are getting through and I am trying to sort out why. I checked out the headers of some of them and it seems that the originating IP is listed in, among many others, Spahhaus XBL but the headers don't list a hit for that.

Headers :- X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, URIBL_BLACK,XPRIO autolearn=no version=3.3.1

Blocklist :- http://www.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=82.165.157.17

Of course I could be misunderstanding that blocklist, I searched on Spamhaus and it returned a listing as above.

Anyway, I have searched and followed the forum posts on this and it seems that Spamhaus should already be in use but I cannot find any trace anywhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction please.

Thanks Tim

CentOS Linux 5.11 Webmin version 1.780 Virtualmin version 4.18

Thu, 02/11/2016 - 02:45
Dim Git

Well, in absence of any suggestions I took a look at the headers of spam that had been caught. I have now seen some headers that contain an entry for Spamhaus. I still have no idea of where this is specified in VM/WM but I guess it is somewhat academic. I don't know what other RBL lists are used either.

Thanks anyway.

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