[cobalt-users] Re: MailScanner blocked outgoing mail

["Jorge Ceballos" <jorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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


Dans (both who answered),

That solved it.
Sorry to admit it, but didn't know what "RBL" stood for.

Thanks again

Jorge Ceballos