Re: [cobalt-users] MailScanner blocked outgoing mail

[Dan Houghton <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:55 26/08/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> My RaQ4i outgoing mail just stopped working this morning.
> After running :  tail -f /var/log/maillog realized that everytime I sent a
> test message I got :
>
> Aug 26 14:39:36 www mailscanner[8323]: RBL Checks (Infinite-Monkeys) timed
> out and were killed
>
> And the mail just wouldn't make it.
> (If sent from within Neomail, it came across w/o problem)
>
> After turning mailscanner off, all mails are ok and back to normal sending
> and receiving.
>
> I really like MailScanner (thanks again Bassi!) and would like to keep it
> running.
>
> Any idea anyone on how to solve this. ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge Ceballos V


Jorge,

It sounds like you have the RBL feature enabled and their are known issues 
with the Osirusoft at the moment. I used Sendmail m4 to include a number of 
RBL checks and had to remove Osirusoft last Friday as it stopped Sendmail 
from working correctly.

Check /home/opt/MailScanner/etc/mailscanner.conf and look for "RBL". You 
should find something like:

# You might find these 3 useful as well.
#Spam List = spamcop.net, bl.spamcop.net.
#Spam List = Infinite-Monkeys, proxies.relays.monkeys.com.
#Spam List = osirusoft.com, relays.osirusoft.com.

Mine are hashed out but you may have them enabled and there are problems 
with Osirusoft  and possibly with monkeys.com judging by your log message.

        Dan