-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:37:38 -0400 > Von: Roman Gelfand <[email protected]> > An: Tom Hendrikx <[email protected]> > CC: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Dspam-user] RBL Configuration
> I read the comment below. I didn't know if spamhaus is mainained by > humans. > > Do you have a source that is not maintained by humans that you would > recommend? > > What are the chances you get false positives with the good source? > > If user doesn't mind forwarding spam to DSPAM, would using RBL be > discouraged then? > I use RBL and other mechanism here with great success and with 0 false positive rate (related to RBLs) since years. But I am not trusting one single RBL. Never ever would I do that! I would suggest you to look for something like policyd-weight and/or postfwd and combine a bunch of RBL/RHBL/WHL and other mechanism to mitigate the failure of one single lookup list. > Thanks > Steve > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tom Hendrikx<[email protected]> wrote: > > Roman Gelfand schreef: > >> Is there a reason why to choose to configure RBL with DSPAM over the > >> same with Postfix? > > > > Using RBL in postfix mean that you can reject the mail on SMTP level. > > The message never enters your system which saves you resources. > > > > Furthermore the, RBL function in dspam is not meant for 'regular' RBL > > (as this is done much more effcetive at SMTP level), but for > > "streamlined blackhole list", which was a project of the original dspam > > developer, which is now dead. The comments in the config file tell > > something more about it. There is an expliciet advice in the file though > > about not using human-maintained RBL's, which spamhaus et al are. > > > > From dspam.conf: > > # Lookup: Perform lookups on streamlined blackhole list servers (see > > # http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/sbl/). The streamlined > blacklist > > # server is machine-automated, unsupervised blacklisting system designed > to > > # provide real-time and highly accurate blacklisting based on network > > spread. > > # When performing a lookup, DSPAM will automatically learn the inbound > > message > > # as spam if the source IP is listed. Until an official public RABL > > server is > > # available, this feature is only useful if you are running your own > > # streamlined blackhole list server for internal reporting among > > multiple mail > > # servers. Provide the name of the lookup zone below to use. > > # > > # This function performs standard reverse-octet.domain lookups, and > while it > > # will function with many RBLs, it's strongly discouraged to use those > > # maintained by humans as they're often inaccurate and could hurt filter > > # learning and accuracy. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Dspam-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Dspam-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user
