Mailing List Archive: RBL tests in local mode?

I am trying to test if some RBL tests will work for me without slowing SA
down too much. Right now I am running SA in local only mode. I figured I
would leave mode to local and make a "local" rbl test of my own. So here is
a part of my site .cf files:

skip_rbl_checks 0
dns_available yes
header MY_RCVD_IN_SBL eval:check_rbl_txt('sbl',
'sbl.spamhaus.org.')
describe MY_RCVD_IN_SBL Received via a relay in Spamhaus Block
List
score MY_RCVD_IN_SBL 0.01
(note - there is no "tflags MY_RCVD_IN_SBL net" line in there)

Now, if I try to run spamassassin -L </path/to/mbox, it does not run my
MY_RCVD_IN_SBL test. If I run spamassassin </path/to/mbox, it triggers both
my and default rbl tests.

What did I miss in making rbl test "local"? Is it possible at all?

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At 01:21 PM 3/3/2004, Genchev, Sergei wrote:
> Now, if I try to run spamassassin -L </path/to/mbox, it does not run my
>MY_RCVD_IN_SBL test. If I run spamassassin </path/to/mbox, it triggers both
>my and default rbl tests.
>
> What did I miss in making rbl test "local"? Is it possible at all?

It's not possible..

"-L" disables all network based checks, categorically and completely. no
DNSBLs, no MX lookups, no DCC, no Razor, no Pyzor will be run in -L mode.

even without the tflags net, the rule will get skipped as soon as you try
to call check_rbl_txt.

If you really only want to run a subset of the DNSBLs, just set the score
of the ones you don't want to be 0. Rules with 0 score don't run, and this
is the way that the developers have recommended several times for disabling
a DNSBL that's too slow for you.