Disable DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL (Abusive Hosts Blocking List)
 

I am running a mail server which suffered of assigning too high spam scores based on DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL.

The Abusive Host Blocking List is not functional anymore and resturns a postive on every request. This adds 2.7 point to the spam score count by default. On a treshold of 5 that is a lot.

For some reason, spamassassin updates do not exclude DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL from the spam score.

The general recommendation on Google is to add this line to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf:
What I found confusing is that the score is not in this file by default. It is buried somewhere deep down a configuration directory (/usr/share/spamassassin/...) in some file which is autogenerated.

Long story short, to eliminate this parameter, you have to add this line to /etc/spamassissin/local.cf. Even if the line isn't there.

I hope this information helps someone else.

jlinkels

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