On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Chris Green wrote: > Now that MAPS has gone commercial, has anyone tried subscribing and setting > Gnatbox to query their new servers? Does it work? $200 is not bad at all > for the service as long as it will still work with the firewall. I liked > having the firewall bounce all the email so my mail server didn't have to. > I have seen a HUGE increase in spam in the past few weeks since MAPS stopped > working for me.
Ive looked at a MAPS subscription, but unfortunately it looks like we're a bit over the 100 email account limit on the small business flavor. That turns a reasonable $200/yr into a much harder to justify $1500/yr. I sent them some mail asking about user upgrades for the small business version and they claimed they were going to do that, but I still dont see anything on the website about it. In the interim, Ive started using some of the free open relay listing services. Even when we were using MAPS, the bulk of the stuff that got bounced was from the open relay list rather than the RBL. The two that im using at the moment are ordb (see: www.ordb.org) and orbz (www.orbz.org). These services actually seem to work better than MAPS RSS, in that they are more automatic. Open relays get listed quicker, and there is a automated way for sites to get un-listed. Im still thinking of doing the MAPS RBL+ since they list the commercial spamhauses that are not open relays, but do spew out the garbage. Joe Matuscak Rohrer Corporation 717 Seville Road Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 (330)335-1541 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
