I read all through the docs and did not find any support for popular DNSRBLs.
William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. 555 H St., Ste. C P.O. Box 155 Eureka, CA 95502-0155 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707.476.0833 ph > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Randall Scott > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > ASSP does support dnsbl's. Read the docs, its not that hard to setup. > > Randall Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William > Van Hefner > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > I saw someone mention the ASSP anti-spam software at > http://assp.sourceforge.net a day or two ago and decided to try it out. > > After fiddling around with it for a few hours on a secondary mail > server, I > can assure you that running this on your iMail box is probably not a great > idea if you really want to stop spam. The problem? ASSP (unlike > iMail 8.0+) > doesn't allow you to run checks on DNS based blacklists (or > DNSRBLs) at all. > If you run ASSP as a proxy server on the same machine as iMail, > it will make > iMail's own DNSRBL look-up feature useless, since it would only be doing > lookups on the IP address of your own mail server, not the address of the > originating sender. All your iMail box will do is a lookup of the > IP address > 127.0.0.1. > > If you run ASSP on another server, you will run into the same problem. As > soon as you put another server in front of iMail, all DNSRBL > look-ups become > impossible. Personally, I depend on DNSRBLs like SpamCop a LOT. > They easily > block 50% or more of the spam hitting my server in the first > place, and is a > valuable first line of defense. Blocking spam by IP address, before it > traverses through memory and CPU hogging filters and rules, is always the > best way to go. > > ASSP does have some great features. I especially like the fact that it > allows you to treat certain (seeded) addresses as "honeypot addresses" to > collect info on spammers. I couldn't really tell what it did with > this data > from the documentation though. If it didn't block iMail's DNSRBL > capabilities, I'd say that it would be a great add-on product for > iMail. As > it is now though, it only serves to cripple one of iMail's most powerful > anti-spam features. That alone makes the capabilities of ASSP's other > features a moot point. That's just my 2 cents though. > > > William Van Hefner > Network Administrator > > Vantek Communications, Inc. > 555 H St., Ste. C > P.O. Box 155 > Eureka, CA 95502-0155 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 707.476.0833 ph > > > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
