Mail failure
Very remarkable and unexpected: After last start of the spam filter all seemed well. It did mention status in the logfile on 25-feb-2014, but with no activity on any of the worker processes. But for the whole next day no activity was logged, as it usually does verey two hours. However, I did receive some messages. But this morniong none was received. Not even in the spam boxes. So I started an investigation and I found that all messages that I received since I restarted the service, had been blaclisted on the first entry in the list: rbl.map.vix.com. Even gmail messages – that server blocks gmail as I found out early in the process – that I had explicitly allowed, didn’t come through. So I edited the PMAS configuration, found an error in the gmail address (so it should pass now) and disabled both vox.com blacklists. After restarting the anti-spam filter, messages from gmail are now accepted, but any other is marked as blacklisted address – by the now first entry. Something is definietly wrong here…
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center