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From: "Eric "Shubes"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] surbl not kickin in
>
> Ok, thanks for the clarification.
> I'm still new to this BL stuff. Can you (or someone) please explain RBL,
> URIBL, and SURBL? (or point to a link that does)
RBL ---- Realtime blacklists --- work on the IP address of the sender..If it
is there on any RBL, it should be considered as SPAM.
SURBL -- Spam URI Realtime Black lists -- work on URLs present in the body
of the mails...If the URL is listed on SURBL sites, it should be considered
as SPAM...URIBL is just another name for it...
> Heh, I just noticed something else. In my SA book (O'Reilly, Alan
Schwartz),
> it says that the URIDNSBL plugin is loaded by 25_uribl.cf (SA3.0). I don't
> see it (25_uribl.cf tests to see if URIDNSBL is loaded though). Does
anyone
> know where/if this is loaded in the default SA distribution?
>
Atleast on the default toaster, it does not get loaded...And I think its a
good idea to load it and enable it by default.. 'Cos its very effective in
blocking a lot of spams which would otherwise flow in...I used to write a
lot of custom rules to try and stop these..Then I saw on the SA mailing list
about SURBLs and tried it out on my installation. Voila....I need not have
any custom rules anymore..
Lot of new users find it very difficult to figure out that there are
somethings called SURBLs....Of course, if you are an admin, I guess its your
job to find these and get them working..But it will make the admins life a
lot easier if by default, its there....
Anand
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