How to disable sorbs in spamassassin

Question

I notice that sorbs.net is marking GMail's IP as spam sender which causes my users not able to receive from gmail.com. I want to disable or remove sorbs.net from checking process or add more DNSBLs in order let gmail emails in. I tried adding the following to my local.cf but no success:

whitelist_from_rcvd  *@gmail.com  gmail.com
score   __RCVD_IN_SORBS  0

I also tried to comment/delete sorbs from 20_dnsbl_tests.cf but it didn't do anything either.

Here's the log from maillog:

NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-oi0-f48.google.com[209.85.218.48]: 
454 4.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [209.85.218.48] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; 
Currently Sending Spam See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?209.85.218.48; 
from=<someone@gmail.com> to=<email@domain.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-oi0-f48.google.com>
Sep  3 15:03:05 server postfix/smtpd[16891]: disconnect from mail-oi0-f48.google.com[209.85.218.48]

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '16 at 22:27

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As from SpamAssassin version 3.4 you may disable queries for any BL by adding: (local.cf)

dns_query_restriction deny sorbs.net

answered Sep 03 '16 at 22:27

Kondybas

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I already tried that, No success. – undone Sep 04 '16 at 00:39
The last reasonable assumption is that you have edited not the effective configs. May be you have configured SA to be launched with some non-implicit config files. – Kondybas Sep 04 '16 at 12:55
I posted the answer to my problem. See my own answer. – undone Sep 04 '16 at 13:14
At least I was right and you have edited the wrong config. – Kondybas Sep 05 '16 at 13:02
Yeah, fault was mine. your answer would solve normal situation. – undone Sep 05 '16 at 14:50

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '16 at 08:31

Turns out, it was postfix that was doing the checking not SpamAssassin. If you encounter the same problem, open your main.cf file (probably in /etc/postfix/main.cf) and find the line that starts with smtpd_recipient_restrictions and remove reject_rbl_client dnsbl.sorbs.net from it.

How to disable sorbs in spamassassin

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