On Fri, July 31, 2009 09:07, Steve wrote:
> 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.

For postfix users, I would second, without any reservation whatsoever, the
use of policyd-weight. No one RBL will cause a block; you can add others
to the default configuration as you desire.

You'll find that you are blocking a huge amount of spam *before it hits
your mail queue*, which means a massive reduction in server resources used
(less work for dspam) not to mention more or less eliminating problems
like rejection notice bounce back and the like.

A single perl script and one configuration file - nothing could be easier.
Is in FreeBSD ports if you are a user of that OS or direct from the web
site.

I've customized the script somewhat; I don't allow certain conditions to
pass as readily, and I've integrated a patch which allows Geo IP lookups.
As our users do not do much business with certain spam producing haven
countries (notably VN, BR, CN), I set the bar high for mail senders in
that country - guilty until proven innocent, as opposed to the default,
innocent until proven guilty.

All in all policyd-weight is a simple and hugely effective tool. So
effective that I can shut off dspam if need be and for the most part, many
users would not even notice.

In fact for our purposes, the only thing dspam is used for is tagging (and
integrated clamav scanning). That in no way diminishes dspam's value to
us... the tagging feature (with delivery) is important to us.

What little spam makes its way through the postfix / policyd-weight
gauntlet I do want tagged, but delivered (dovecot sieve places this
potential spam in a junk dir), and that's dspam's mission for us.




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