I have spam 1.2 and drupal 6.17, on apache running mod_removeip. mod_removeip removes all visitor's IP addresses at the webserver level, and replaces them with "127.0.0.1", so this is what spam sees.

I have set "IP blacklist threshold:" to unlimited, and that seems to work sometimes, but at the moment, spam.api is blocking cron.php from running. if I go to /admin/reports/status/run-cron or to just /cron.php, I get this message:

"Your posting on <Site Name> from 127.0.0.1 has been automatically flagged by our spam filters as probably spam. Unfortunately, sometimes the filters accidentally block legitimate content.

If your content was wrongly blocked, please leave some appropriate feedback, and it WILL eventually be posted. We apologise for the delay, we have few volunteers on the team with enough time to maintain the site."

Even though I have not submitted anything. Is there any way around this? is there any way to get spam.module working with mod_removeip? ie. disabling ip blocking all together?

Comments

AlexisWilke’s picture

AlexisWilke commented

naught101,

Did you try not to turn on the Duplicate IP feature?

Maybe even the whole Duplicate feature...

Thank you.
Alexis

naught101’s picture

naught101 commented

hrm... I turned off all modules, ran cron a few times, then turned them all on, and it works again, I guess because the IP blocks got dropped somehow.

I thought the duplicate filter checked for duplicate content, not duplicate IPs? if not, would it perhaps make sense to be able to separate those features? ie. allow duplicate content detection without duplicate IP detection?

AlexisWilke’s picture

AlexisWilke commented

The Duplicate module was reset, but I would imagine that you'll run in the same problem again once the duplicate module is re-trained. I am not 100% sure that the IP is used by itself for duplication detection. I think it's an extra check that re-enforce the likelihood of a message being spam.

Thank you.
Alexis Wilke

naught101’s picture

naught101 commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

ok, thanks for the help, probably nothing to change here.