Re: ACTION REQUIRED: Resolving the Validity situation

On 2026-02-04 at 04:31:53 UTC-0500 (Wed, 4 Feb 2026 10:31:53 +0100)
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> On 12.05.25 14:31, Bill Cole wrote:
>> ***********************************************
>>
>> ACTION REQUIRED: If you wish to continue to query the DNS{W,B}Ls run 
>> by Validity (nee "Return Path") you MUST set non-zero scores to the 
>> relevant rules in your local.cf file, effective with the distribution 
>> of today's rule changes (i.e.  Wednesday-ish) including revision 
>> r1925516.
>>
>> ***********************************************
>>
>> After reviewing Bug 8278 
>> (https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8278,) the 
>> conversations here, what we have documented as policy, and feedback 
>> from masscheck contributors, I have set all 3 Validity-related rule 
>> scores to 0 and commented their "BLOCKED" rules, assuring no more 
>> queries from anyone who does not affirmatively wish to do so.
>
> I am still receiving errors, I guess because:
>
> 72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED    0.001 0.001 
> 0.001 0.001
> 72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED         0.001 0.001 
> 0.001 0.001
> 72_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED         0.001 0.001 
> 0.001 0.001

That's odd... Because I also see:

50_scores.cf:#score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED 0.001
50_scores.cf:#score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED  0.001
50_scores.cf:#score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED 0.001

> Shouldn't these be deactivated as well?

Yes, and I'm not sure why they are popping back into existence.

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